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...world's largest church in the round, has been closed for eight years while rain pours through gaps in the roof. The sign on the barred door reads: Attenti alle frane (Watch out for falling stones). ¶ In Milan, Santa Maria delle Grazie (which houses Leonardo da Vinci's recently restored Last Supper) also has a fine cloister with Bramante frescoes, largely ignored and badly damaged by water seeping through walls and ceiling. ¶ In Florence's Santa Croce, Italy's greatest Franciscan church, rain falls through the battered roof of the Bardi chapel, forms pools...
...hillbillies are so frightening, why do thousands of Yankee tourists swarm Southward annually and enter our quiet, air-conditioned restaurants attired in wrinkled slacks and baseball caps, loudly inquiring "whurs da ladies' room...
Greater Opportunities. In Choreographer Erdman, Laderman found a musical partner who was not concerned by the emotional restrictions placed on her work. At the first rehearsal she read the annotated dance score aloud (da-da-da-da, da-di-da-di) to see how its rhythms keyed with those of the flute. Then she translated the rhythms into movements. The completed Duet, premiered last year, was an elegant, admirably contained piece. Last week's far more complex work, also choreographed by Jean Erdman, was a wittily detailed examination of the love life of a voraciously modern woman...
...small double-chorus opened the all-sacred program with a performance of Palestrina's Stabat Master. This work, one of the many settings of a medieval Latin poem attributed to Jacopone da Todi, is an excellent example of Palestrina's lucid polyphony. If the chorus's presentation was marred by an occasional uneasy entrance and by prominence of individual voices, it never fell into the pitfall of monotony which too often characterizes renditions of this type of music. Instead, the long vocal lines were moulded into a dynamically sound performance...
...Bene!" Although Aïda is the last of the studio-recorded Toscanini music, Victor still has half a dozen unpublished recordings from rehearsals and performances approved by Toscanini during the last two years of his life and scheduled for release. They include Brahms's Double Concerto, Haydn's Toy Symphony and a Vivaldi Concerto Grosso. Toscanini's son Walter estimates that there are some 30 other approved recordings in Riverdale, among them the complete Romeo and Juliet music of Berlioz and the Second and Fourth symphonies of Sibelius. The recordings are the fruits of a plan...