Word: make
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...piano smasher." Often enough, when he came to a difficult passage, he could only bang his fists down on the keyboard in frustration and rage. After a try at composing, with little more success, he decided to take his music at one remove, pay for it rather than make it himself.' Today, after 40 years of footing bills, 70-year-old Count Chigi-Saracini has a good claim to the title of Italy's No. 1 music patron. The slim, white-haired nobleman has remodeled his vast, 800-year-old palazzo in Siena to house a concert hall...
...count's favorite project is his 28-year-old Chigi Musical Academy, a summer school designed to give young musicians the finishing touches they need before they make their concert debuts. To staff his academy, the count hires some of Europe's finest teachers, turns over to them 27 of the Palazzo Chigi-Saracini's 80 rooms. This summer, some 250 youngsters from 30 countries are playing, singing and waving batons in the palazzo's luxurious galleries and chambers. By month's end, the 70 most talented of them will have started an intensive...
Considering that Frankie came from the U.S., the quality of this smile was enough to make a critic marvel. Marveled Hobson...
...Adolf Hitler's Germany, Sculptor Josef Thorak had a big job: official sculptor of the Third Reich. His huge statuary was to decorate the squares and public buildings of the city that Hitler was to make the "thousand-year capital" of the Reich. To house Thorak's enormous work in preparation, some of it six stories high and weighing 1,000 tons, the Führer built him a studio as high and wide as a Zeppelin hangar. When the job proved to be insecure, Sculptor Thorak retired to semiobscurity in Bavaria...
Last week, 61, and finally cleared by a Bavarian denazification court, Thorak was allowed to make a modest comeback with a postwar show in Salzburg. His most ambitious works, along with the regime they celebrated, had long since been destroyed, e.g., his huge (60 by 36 ft.) marble statue of German road builders, the product of four years' work, had been cut into building blocks. Nonetheless, Thorak had managed to get together 17 pieces of his work including His Last Flight, a limply classical war memorial, to remind Salzburg of just how grandiose he could...