Word: librettist
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...World War I. He was born four years after Waterloo and died in the year World War I began. He was a high-spirited boy (or what would now be called a delinquent) who matriculated at one of New York's most cultivated households, that of Mozart Librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, where he learned a respect for languages and a contempt for bourgeois morality. He was to need both...
...much effect this reminiscence had when Gertrude S. got together with Virgil T. in 1946 to write their third major opera is unknown. The influence of the indefatigable Miss Anthony, whose 86-year life span is the opera's subject, seems certain. Librettist Gertrude S. hints at the link in Scene Four of The Mother of Us All: "If people are rich," says Susan B., "they do not listen to anybody; if they are poor, they listen; but all they perceive is the fact that they are listening. As for me, there is no wealth nor poverty, as long...
...when he had a florin in his pocket, Mozart managed to be gay. Author Davenport describes how, in 1787, Mozart and his librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte, went walking in Prague with the famed, tottering great-lover Casanova, to ask his advice on the character of Don Giovanni...
...wanted him at the keyboard of a piano, not at the controls of a plane. At Sampson Air Force Base near Rochester, N.Y. (Major General Richard Lindsay commanding), he set out to compose a huge musical "panorama" celebrating the 50th anniversary of powered flight. Composer de Gastyne's librettist: General Lindsay's daughter Raylyn, to whom he is now married...
...writes that way as a protest. First there was his antimusical father to protest against, then (although his early work earned Debussy's admiration) an indifferent or hostile public. Again and again, his career ran into difficulties. Just as he was beginning to work on an opera with Librettist Hugo (Rosenkavalier) von Hofmannsthal...