Word: il
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moslems daily and to shout their defiance of the French Army and De Gaulle. But Europeans over 40, mourning the loss of beloved friends and relatives in the bloodshed, watching the slow death of long-cherished businesses, and sensing the decay of human decency around them, could only say, "Il faut que cela finisse...
...promised to sing Salan's praise in print. The "commandant" stayed his execution and returned him to the Aletti with a message for all twelve Italian newsmen in Algiers: leave, or die. Eleven left by the next available plane. The twelfth, Nicola Caracciolo, 30, of Milan's Il Giorno, defiantly holed up in the Italian consulate for three days ("It is my moral and professional duty to stay at my post"). Then he, too, prudently fled to Rome...
...Il Dissonante, as abbot Banchieri was known to the academic world of his day, did not hesitate to make a single pivot note the sole point of continuity in a total shift of harmony. Daring in his time, such transitions still surprise the traditionally trained ear. Banchieri also jabbed his musical elbow in the stylistic ribs of his contemporaries. But, as Banchieri himself ends the next to last madrigal, "Hail to the caprices of Banchieril...
...last week had already been honored in England as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In more colloquial Italy, she had been dubbed "La Stupenda." Roughly two hours after her appearance, the Commander sank to the stage singing the words: "Al giunger tuo soltanto fia bello il del per me!" (Though only when you join me can heaven be heaven to me)-and was rewarded with a special American accolade, a sustained roar that lasted for twelve minutes and through ten curtain calls. Never, confessed the Commander later, had she "heard such sound from the throats...
Verdi: "Di quella pira" from Il Trovatore (Tap). This album, as its cover proudly proclaims, presents one aria rendered by 40 tenors, containing 80 high Cs. As written by Verdi, Di quella pira ("From that pyre"), from the third act of Il Trovatore, had not a single high C in it, but Tenor Enrico Tamberlik (1820-89) started inserting one in the middle and one at the end-and they have been there ever since. The 40 tenors sing in six languages, and generally bleat, screech, bawl and scream in a manner calculated to make any listener sympathize with Rossini...