Word: arditi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd with their music's wild beauty. It was the fascinating difference between palace panoply and hillside rebel yells. The pipers played a few marches and accompanied eight regimental dancers in a slow fling and a rapid, triumphant reel. After some concert pieces (Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave, Arditi's // Bacio, etc.) indifferently done by the band, the dancers placed claymores in the form of a St. Andrew's cross on the floor for the warlike sword dance. By that time, brothers in the gallery had passed the limits of endurance and were shrieking their...
...housewives who yearned to appear with a symphony orchestra got their wish when one directed the Denver Symphony (in Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King) and the other sang (Arditi's Il Bacio) with the orchestra accompanying...
...Barkio (Spike Jones; Victor). The City Slickers do a bumptious doghouse lampoon of Arditi's coloratura favorite, Il Bacio. For all their hectic enthusiasm, it falls far short of Clara Cluck's classic henhouse version of the same old standard...