Word: birdtoscanini
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...decade now. Here are the pines of the Villa Borgheseini, a triumph for Respighi and the U.S. debut of a certain English nightingale in the third movement. For Respighi disdained any nightingale effect that might be obtained from strings or woodwinds, used a gramophone record made by a real birdToscanini as to make the readings of lesser men seem imitative and frail; and an audience that had jabbered its way into the hall went home stilled and critics went out fumbling for words...
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