Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signer Fortune Gallo is not enthusiastic about music. Some people even think he cherishes a vigorous dislike for all tonal art-and especially for opera. Nevertheless, he is an efficient and successful maestro of impresario, bringing back his San Carlo Opera Company season after season with powers undiminished and spirits unabated. He may possibly hate music, but he loves his company and lives for it alone-which is perhaps all that one ought to demand...
...From Maestro Pietro Mascagni, the "one-opera-man" (TIME, July 28), now in Vienna, the Opera Comique has ordered a lyric drama based on the successful Plus Que Reine, by Henri Caën. Under the title More Than Queen, it was produced in the U. S. in 1899, with Julia Arthur playing the regal part. It is a dramatization of the career of the unfortunate Empress Josephine, willowy victim of Europe's "man of destiny." Mascagni has already set himself to work transcribing her sighs into pathetic whisperings of violins and flutes...
...Italy, however, that the opera-industry really flourishes, as always. There Maestro Zandonai has already written a four-act Legende, Maestro Giordano his new Cene Beffe, Wolf-Ferrari (composer of The Jewels of the Madonna) his La Veste di Crilo and modernist Malipiero has completed no less than three "lyrical comedies...
...Temple of Chamber Music" at South Mountain, Pittsfield, Mass. Eight concerts were heard on successive Sunday afternoons, the last taking place on Aug. 31. The event was made possible by the financial devotion of Mrs. F. S. Coolidge, a real patroness, and by the artistic devotion of Maestro Willem Willeke, a real musician...
...this as it may, Maestro Mascagni remains discussed abroad. Inundated under wreaths, well-nigh buried in bouquets, he last week responded 100 times to the frenetic applause of a Vienna audience which heard him conduct Verdi's Aida. The performance was given in the huge amphitheatre, scene of numerous sporting events. On the stage were 2,000 musicians, singers, dancers-Italians; in the audience were 20,000 listeners-Austrians. Without imposing a defeat, the former scored a victory, orderly, harmonious. In this azione, were cast the finest singers of a honey-throated nation. Signora Poli-Randaccio was Aida, brought...