Word: bambinos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conductor, he made fidelity to the composer his watchword. From the time he first mounted a podium as a "beardless bambino" of 19 (in 1886), no man ever swayed him from what he felt in his heart to be right, but in judging what was right, he relied not only on heart, but on his extraordinary taste and ear. His goal was perfection, and he sought it with the fervor of a knight seeking the Grail. In his own mind he never achieved it, but through the years, his music became ever cleaner and simpler. He was the ever-inquiring...
...take it, don't go to Italy at all; stop off only at museum pieces such as Belgium's Bruges-"a lovely stuffed bird." If, on the other hand, your stomach is strong enough to take the parfumerie with the campanile, the tinsel bambino with the David of Michelangelo, the abysmal filth with the supreme sunlight-then make your pilgrimage to the cities of Italy, remembering always the words of a loth Century Irish bard...