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...your article on Composer Luigi Dallapiccola [TIME, May 29]: How many busybodies have written to inform you that his "Kafkaesque libretto" to Il Prigioniero was, with the exception of locale, lifted in its entirety from The Torture of Hope, a short story by [19th Century French Author] Villiers de L'Isle Adams...
...Italian musical circles, short, homely Composer Luigi Dallapiccola is affectionately known as Il Bruttino-The Ugly One. For some Italian critics, the name also applies to his dodecafonico music. In Italy, the land of Verdi and Puccini, Luigi Dallapiccola, 46, is the chief disciple of Arnold Schoenberg's strange-to-the-ear twelve-tone technique...
...Little Girl." Last week the audience at Florence's May Festival heard Composer Dallapiccola's latest and most ambitious work, his opera Il Prigioniero (The Prisoner), which had its première on the Italian radio last year...
Died. Generoso Pope, 59, Italian-born New Yorker who rose from $3-a-week water boy to Tammany Hall big shot and publisher of one of the country's largest foreign-language newspapers, Il Progresso Italo-Americano (circ. 78,000) ; after long illness; in Manhattan. With profits from his $8,847,988 Colonial Sand and Stone Co. Inc., Pope bought three Italian-language dailies which he merged into one. After supporting Italy's fascist regime for a dozen years, Publisher-Politico Pope repudiated Mussolini in 1941, was active in pushing the U.S.-to-Italy letter-writing campaign which...
Sadie Hawkins Day was originated in the "L'il Abner comic strip...