Word: giovanni
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Giovanni Pertinax Morosini, 75, retired banker, eldest son of Banker Giovanni Morosini. aide to Garibaldi, art collector and onetime partner of Jay Gould; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. The elder Morosini left a museum-like Victorian mansion and an estate once estimated at $25,000,000 to his children, of whom Victoria married a coachman, Giulia a policeman. Amalia, an invalid since birth, survives...
...Jedermann and Faust, operas and concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic under Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Erich Kleiber, Felix Weingartner. Last week with the festival in its final days, neither love nor money could obtain tickets for any Toscanini event or for the final Walter performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni...
...single Tristan und Isolde, poorly sung but flamingly conducted by Walter, Salzburg this year heard little of Wagner. It liked best the effete Viennese gaiety of Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, the bubbling Italian gaiety of Verdi's Falstaff, the pure charm of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte, Il Seraglio, Figaro. Toscanini electrified audiences with Beethoven's Fidelio but he also made a great point of reviving a disused ''Reformation" symphony by Mendelssohn, banned in Germany because its composer was a Jew. This he played last Sunday in a broadcast...
...Manhattan, 28 years ago, Johnson soloed in the Brick Presbyterian Church, then sang in a Broadway musical comedy to earn enough money for study in Italy. There, as in the U. S., his plain Anglo-Saxon name was a handicap. He changed it to Eduardo di Giovanni, made his mark at La Scala before he was invited home. For more than a decade he has been the No. 1 North American-born tenor. Others may sing louder. But Johnson never errs as an artist, never fails to be an attractive, credible hero. As Roméo and Pell...
...Middleboro (Mass.) a group of first-generation Italians outraged the socialite Yankees of the swank Cabot Club by organizing a club of their own called the John Cabot Club, named for 15th Century Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot), Italian navigator credited with the discovery of North America...