Word: giorgio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Supreme Court Chamber at Manhattan last week and heard their futures tentatively ordered by Justice Louis A. Valente. The youths were Ruggiero Ricci, 9-year-old violinist whose Eastern debut last autumn made him the musical marvel of the U. S. and his 8-year-old brother Giorgio, whose promise is little less than Ruggiero...
...Pietro Ricci, San Francisco music teacher, father of six, recognized his Ruggiero's unusual talent, took him to Louis Persinger who trained Prodigy Yehudi Menuhin. Teacher Persinger enthused, put small Ruggiero under the care of Violinist Mary Elizabeth Lackey for grooming. Later to her went Giorgio. Less and less did the Riccis see their sons. On Nov. 15, 1928, Ruggiero's San Francisco debut was hailed by critics. Next day Father Pietro signed a legal paper thinking (he says) it was a will providing for his boys should he die. Instead the papers made Miss Lackey guardian for Ruggiero...
Samuel Insull, patron, and Giorgio Polacco, conductor, of the Chicago Civic Opera, spent a half-hour explaining U. S. technical and artistic problems to Benito Mussolini...