Word: lucca
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deputy Giovanni Amendola, leader of the Aventine Opposition, took it into his head last week to take the waters at Montecatini, near Lucca in Tuscany. But it never occurred to him that that section of Tuscany was homogeneously Fascist. Not long after he had entered the hotel, swarms of Black Shirts scooted down the mountains, congregated before Signor Amendola's hotel, groaned, booed, hissed. Finding little satisfaction in this, the crowd began to surge backward and forward, like a busy battering ram, in an effort to break the police cordons thrown round the building. Eventually several Fascisti dashed...
Tonight is Maine Night at the Pops Concert which will take place at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall. The program is as follows: 1. March, "On to Bangor" R. R. Hall 2. Overture, Oberon Weber 3. Rachen Mana Lucca 4. Fantasia from "Carmen" Intermission Bizet 5. Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg A. Morning Mood B. In the Troll King's Grotto 6. Intermezzo from "Manon Lescaut" Puccini 7. Conpra Beethoven 8. Ride of the Valkyries Intermission Wagner 9. Marche Slave Tschaikovsky 10. The Lark Jacchia 11. Waltz, "The Sirens" Waldteufel
Incomparably the most popular of contemporary composers, Puccini was born at Lucca, Italy, 1858. His father, his grandfather, his great-grandfather had all composed music. He attracted attention when his one-act opera Le Villi was successfully performed at La Scala, Milan. His next work, Edgar, was a failure; but he won note with Manon Lescaut, and international fame with La Bohème. Tosca and Madame Butterfly followed. The Girl of the Golden West, based on a drama by David Belasco, produced at the Metropolitan with Caruso and Emmy Destinn, did not long survive,* nor did the three short...
...works specified by M. Vigoroux as spurious include 1) A ceramic piece attributed to Lucca della Robbia, 15th Century Florentine sculptor, sold to an official of the Metropolitan for $3,000, and "not worth a sou." (The Metropolitan contains only one della Robbia?a terra cotta bas-relief entitled Prudence, bought in 1921 under the bequest of Joseph Pulitzer.) 2) A 15th Century statue of St. Paul, sold to Assistant Curator Breck, of the Metropolitan, for $3,000. 3) A bas-relief group, Les Lansquenets (a former type of German footsoldier; the figures were called "devils" by the people...
...that made him the last gentleman of the old grand manner. Today Ms voice has diminished in quality, but he still sings with all of his great mastery of style and interpretation. Our own Scotti of the Metropolitan Opera House is no callow youth, neither is Didur nor De Lucca nor Rothier. But these fellows are baritones and bassos, who are notable for being devils hard to kill. The marvel of Agostini's case is that he is a tenor. A tenor with a voice at 50 is a great rarity. Caruso, who was 49 when he died...