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...feature of the production is the dancing. There is enough of it in the two acts to supply three ordinary musical shows and make any one a Droadway success. Seldom is it the privilege of a Boston audience to witness such a graceful exhibition as that givenly Miss Francesca Braggiotti in her "Spirit of the Nile" dance, and again, accompanied by her sister, in the tango in the second act. The "Waitress Dance," beautifully done by a chorus of ten, is the best bit of group dancing in the play. Then there is a performance by an "Octette" which makes...
Piero Delia Francesca, who was born about 1406 at Borge San Sepulcro, city situated between Arezzo and Urbino and who died in 1492, was one of the leaders of the Umbrian school. Pierro, besides being an artist of distinction, has a great reputation as a mathematician. In 1439 he was apprenticed to Domenic Veneziano, and assisted him in painting the chapel of Sant Egidio in Santa Mari Novella, Florence. He was engaged in painting a fresco in Rimini in 1451. His most important series of frescoes are those in the choir of San Francesco, in Arezzo, depicting the history...
...conferences were by Miss Laura Dudley on the "Early Italian Engravings"; Mr. FitzRoy Carrington on the "Early Italian Engravings"; Professor C. R. Post '04 on the Spanish Paintings; Professor A. Pope '01 on the Tintoretto "Diana"; Professor H. Edgell on the Piero della Francesca "Crucifixion"; and on the Cassone panel, Pesellino, "Building of the Temple," and Fra Filippo Lippi, "Madonna and Child"; Professor A. Pope '01 on the Turner "Pas de Calais"; and Mr. P. J. Sachs '00 on the "Drawings by Old Masters...
...works of art loaned and exhibited for periods ranging from one week to six months were: Tintoretto, "Diana"; Piero Della Francesca, "Crucifixion"; Pesellino, "Building of the Temple"; Fra Filippo Lippi, "Madonna and Child"; Turner, "Pas de Calais"; Byzantine panel, 13th century, "Scenes from Life of St. Peter"; Rogier van der Weyden, "Noli me tangere"; Lucas Cranach, "Lady in Red Gown"; Filippino Lippi, "Descent from the Cross"; Moretto da Brescia, "The Magdalen"; 16th century Flemish pictures, "Annunciation," and "Crucifixion"; Dutch pictures, Rembrandt, "St. Bartholomew," Franz Hals, "Portrait of a Man Seated," David Teniers, the Younger, "The Five Senses," Girolamo da Santa...
...represents the highest achievement in church music composition. The program follows: Tu Pauperum Refugium, Josquim des Pres Adoramus Te, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Cantate Domino, Hans Leo Hasler Miserere, Gregorio Allegri Ave Maria, Tomas Luis da Vittoria O Sacrum Convivium, Ludovico Viadana Cruciflxus, Antonio Lotti Misericordias Domini (double chorus), Francesca Durante...