Word: gianninis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radio stations and two foreign-language newspapers-New York's Spanish La Prensa and Il Progresso Italo-Americano, the nation's oldest and most influential Italian-language newspaper. (Another brother, Generoso Jr., publishes the weekly sex-and-scandal tabloid, National Enquirer.) Since the death of A. P. Giannini, founder and chairman of the Bank of America, Fortune Pope, 43, has been sometimes spoken of as the outstanding figure in the huge (more than 4,000,000) U.S. Italian-American community. Yet last week, standing before a New York federal judge, Fortune and Anthony Pope were branded "incredibly stupid...
...products of Fairchild Recording Equipment Corp. have so far been too expensive to be a commercial success, but Fairchild is confident that it "will make back every nickel eventually." An early backer of Dr. Gabriel Giannini, the noted physicist, Fairchild in 1946 bought into Giannini Controls of California, a manufacturer of transducers and other sensitive flight instruments. He now owns 9% of the company, which is growing at a 25% yearly rate under Fairchild-picked President Donald Putnam...
Three evenings were given over to performances of Vittorio Giannini's comic opera The Taming of the Shrew. Composed in 1953, it proved to be one of the finest operas yet written by a native American. The libretto uses only words from Shakespeare: the text of Shrew, a speech from Romeo and Juliet, and some lines from the Sonnets. Unlike the Cole Porter musical comedy version of the play, Kiss Me, Kate, Giannini has given equal weight to the two pairs of lovers in the original tale--Katherina and Petruchio, Bianca and Lucentio. The result is a highly dramatic...
Musically, Giannini's work is eclectic and often reverts to an almost 19th-century style. Yet the music is no hodge-podge; everything works, and everything is appropriate. It is heartening to find a composer willing to write for the voice as though it were something besides an instrument. Vocally, the score is in the Verdi-Puccini tradition; orchestrally, it recalls most frequently the sonorities of Richard Strauss, especially of Rosenkavalier. Giannini did not shy away from penning a beautiful, lush love duet for each pair of lovers. The first act has a fugal trio that can take its place...