Word: cremona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incumbent Lanza is Sergio Franchi. Late of Cremona, he is the new favorite son of Las Vegas. And he opened last week as headliner at Manhattan's Copacabana. At Vegas' Hotel Sahara, he was not the headliner but merely a vocal lead-in to Comedian Shelley Berman-to Berman's considerable embarrassment, since Franchi kept getting standing ovations and multiple encores...
Empress of Rome. Born in 1567, the son of a physician of Cremona, Claudio Monteverdi quickly nudged the Italian Renaissance out of its hidebound musical stance. As a young master of the madrigal under the patronage of the ducal Gonzaga family of Mantua, he met with success but grew weary of music's rigid rules. The seesaw violin bored him, so he invented the tremolo and pizzicato...
...stood placidly waiting for customers behind his refreshment stand near the shores of the Po River. Suddenly, as a curvy blonde entered the water for a dip, Francesco, 25, was swept away by love. Her name was Angela Mondini; she was only 16, and, like Francesco, she came from Cremona. Almost immediately, Francesco proposed marriage. Coldly, Angela refused. "He's not my type.'' she told friends. "She's playing hard to get," Francesco replied...