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Work on Donizetti's last opera, Il Duca d'Alba, was interrupted by the composer's insanity, and the score remained unfinished at his death in 1848. Completed by Journeyman Composer Matteo Salvi, it had its premiere in Rome in 1882, was rarely heard after that. Conductor Schippers, of the Metropolitan Opera, spent eight months unscrambling the "blurred, impossible handwriting" of the original score, shaved away Salvi additions, reconstructed most of the originally proposed ending from Donizetti's own figured bass and some solo sketches. What he arrived at was, said Schippers, "pure Donizetti and pure...
Died. Francesco Cardinal Borgongini Duca, 70, one of the chief negotiators in the establishment of a sovereign Vatican state in 1929, since that date the papal nuncio to Italy, author (1952) of The Seventy Weeks of Daniel and the Messianic Date, in which he used the cryptographic prophecies in the book of Daniel to establish the date of Christ's crucifixion as April 7, A.D. 30; of a heart ailment; in Rome...
...Duca's teaching methods are simple as they are sound. He carefully leaves the word "art" out of his discussions with the boys, and he makes no effort to dictate subject matter to them or to improve their drawing. Confronted with an indecipherable picture, he never says the familiar, discouraging words: "What's it supposed...
...Duca's first steps was to get a new medium for his youngsters, something that they could work in more easily than ordinary oils or water colors. He hit on a resin plastic which stays bright when dry, does not rub off, or run together when slopped on. The kids took to it like ducks to water. Sometimes Duca herds his charges to museums to see what grown-up professionals have accomplished, but he lets the boys draw their own conclusions from their observations...
...What's This Stuff?" When Duca led" a group of his pupils into the Boston Museum last week, the youngsters could scarcely believe their eyes. "What's all this stuff doing in here?" asked one. Duca explained that the exhibition was in their honor, and the surprise turned to whooping delight. The adult visitors were delighted, too, and impressed. In the first six days 10,000 flocked to see the show, and enthusiastic patrons paid up to $300 to the clubs for the paintings, as the best way of making sure that the program would keep right...