Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be presented tonight at the Pops concert in Symphony Hall. Coronation March from "The Prophet." Meyerbeer Walpurgis Night Music from "Faust," Gouned Suite from "Gephalus and Procis," Tambourin Minuet ("The Nymphs of Diana"), Gigue Gretry-Motti Overture to "Phedre," Massenet "Carnaval" Overture, Dvorak "The Moldan," Symphonic Poem, Smetana Italian Caprice, Tchaikovsky "The Barber of Seville," Overture, Rossint Trseumerei. Schumann Overture to "Rienzi," Wagner
...been fired so close. Yet he interposed to prevent a mob from lynching his would-be assassin, the Honorable Violet Albina Gibson, sister of the irish peer, William Gibson, second Baron Ashbourne. Dictator Mussolini, just, secured for Miss Gibson a safe refuge in jail. She was pronounced insane by Italian alienists (TIME, Aug. 16); but Fascist feeling ran so high that it was necessary to give her continued jail protection. Last week, one year and one month after her irresponsible act, Miss Gibson was put aboard a train at Rome, attended by four nurses and his sister, the Honorable Constance...
Lectures on the different aspects of modern music and the courses its development has followed in different countries have been given at Harvard by musicians and composers of many nationalities. But Monday afternoon will be the first time that one of the leaders of Italian musical growth have ever addressed a Harvard and Cambridge audience. At that time Alfredo Casella, composer, pianist, and conductor, will lecture on "Contemporary Italian Composers" in the Paine Concert Hall at 5 o'clock. The lecture will be in French and will be accompanied by pianoforte illustrations...
...Casella, who is at present conductor of the Boston Symphony Pops concerts, has been one of the most important leaders of the awakening which has taken place in the Italian School during the last decade, and which is now beginning to show evidences of distinct achievement largely under his leadership. Such composers as Respighi, Malipiero, and Pizzetti have been associated with Casella in this movement and it is to their work that he will devote the major part of his lecture on Monday...
Another interesting exhibition is a copy of Ovid's works complete except for the Metamorphoses. This is an Italian manuscript of the fifteenth century written for the most part on paper. About 100 parchment leaves, however, are interspersed among the paper ones. Most of these are palimpsets, or parchment which has been used a second time, the first impressions having been obliterated...