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Hollywood's professional goody-goody, Doris Day, got caught by the Internal Revenue Service in a nono. Seems that between 1953 and 1957, when the freckle-faced, apple pie a la mode actress was peaking at the box office, she and her late husband, Producer Martin Melcher, were making false business-deal claims on their income tax returns. The U.S. tax court ruled last week that the revenuers had been fooled out of more than...
...Boston Opera Company has achieved some tremendous successes. Its performance of Luigi Nono's Intoleranza several seasons ago was a major cultural event, and a source of controversy for many months. This week it will give the world premiere of Gunther Schuller's new opera. The Fisherman and His Wife . But now that the Back Bay Theatre has been torn down, the Company has to search hard to find a place to perform. This year's production of Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment had to be held in a hall at Tufts University in Medford. This effectively closed...
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (Aug. 24-Sept. 13) this year has an Italian slant, featuring works by composers from Monteverdi and Corelli to Dallapiccola and Nono. Opera predominates, but the London Symphony Orchestra, the New Philharmonia, and such soloists as Pianists Claudio Arrau and Misha Dichter, Violinists Itzhak Perlman and Nathan Milstein, can also be heard in nonoperatic works from Brahms to Stravinsky...
...vineyards in Beaujolais, he pursued an aimless study of existentialism, political science and art history at the Sorbonne. Turning to art, Ponelle was fascinated by early 16th century French and Dutch mannerists. This influence was quite pronounced in his first theatrical sets for a 1954 Berlin production of Luigi Nono's ballet, The Red Coat. Composer Hans Werner Henze, a boyhood friend, later asked Ponelle to design a production of his opera, The Stag King. Other commissions quickly followed...
...Rome forced him into exile from 1848 to 1850, he turned implacably conservative. His Syllabus of Errors in 1864 denounced almost every trend in modern secular thought as antiChristian. He virtually demanded that Vatican I proclaim his infallibility. After Garibaldi's troops took Rome in 1870, Pio Nono became the self-styled "prisoner of the Vatican," uttering impotent fulminations against a godless world...