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...especially prevalent in 17th-and 18th-Century Italy, of castrating boys with beautiful sopranos so that their voices would not change. At that time the best castrati were the most feted and prosperous singers of the period. Many connoisseurs preferred the castrati to the finest female sopranos, although a critic in London's famed Spectator once complained of "the shrill celestial whine of eunuchs...
...Despite a few first-rate voices, it resembled a turgid Italian antipasto rather than an exquisite Mozartian souffle. One of the first-rate voices, the Metropolitan Opera's great comic basso, Salvatore Baccaloni, summed it all up by saying: "It stank, if I say so myself." Said the critic of Novedades: "The performance could only be described as weird. Unfortunately, those who did not attend may have been misled by one of my distinguished colleagues who rushed into print Sunday morning stating that the performance could hardly be equaled at Covent Garden or any European capital. Unfortunately his paper...
...fellow craftsmen who know him consider him the most skilled practitioner of a most difficult kind of book reviewing. Critic Van Wyck Brooks, when he edited the Freeman, said that Lisle Bell had invented a new form, ranked him with highbrow Scottish Critic Edwin Muir. Poet Marianne Moore, who edited the Dial's brief booknotes for the ten years Bell contributed, called one cluster of his reviews the best thing she had seen. The reason why Reviewer Bell has never received recognition for his services to U.S. letters: his 17,000 reviews have been written as a sideline, while...
...dictator usually lets his opponents beef loudly & publicly. He beefs right back at them just as loudly. "How many years as president will satisfy you?" shouted one political critic. Answer: "No less than...
...first time, an inclusive exhibition of those paintings was shown last week in Washington's National Gallery of Art. "American Battle Paintings 1776-1918" (116 pictures) was organized by Critic Lincoln Kirstein and the National Gallery's Mrs. Margaret Garrett, jointly sponsored by the National Gallery and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, where it will be shown next fall...