Word: milan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Milan a potent firm of Italian piano manufacturers received last week a note on impressively crested paper: Dear Companions in Sonorous Construction : Upon the arrival of the piano which I ordered from you recently its strings began suddenly to vibrate, drowning the sound of nearby church bells. Not without trembling I perceived that the shadow of Franz Liszt, who was once a guest here, had entered the instrument and was producing with long immaterial fingers a beautiful rhythmic tempest. "This is a place of mysteries and prodigies. Rejoice with me!" (Signed) Gabriele d' Annunzio Gardone, Lago di Garda...
...reminisced further . . . Paris, Milan, Berlin, Vienna, New York, Chicago, Boston, her own Melbourne, from which she borrowed her name. . . . Success after success, approbation, adulation. . . . She wiped away a tear bigger than the Queen's, decided it was sad, if fitting, to have to be just a grandmother...
Ezio Pinza?famed basso of the Scala Opera in Milan and the Colon in Buenos Aires...
Arturo wields the baton, Benito the thunderbolt. Arturo Toscanini, most famed of Italian opera conductors, has refused for three successive years to allow his orchestra at the great Milan opera house, La Scala, to play "Giovanezza," the Fascist hymn. To the ears of Benito Mussolini reports have come that Toscanini has defended his refusal as follows: "Never! I refuse to turn La Scala into a market place for Fascist demonstrations. They have the square outside and also the Galleria nearby for that, but while I conduct the Scala orchestra, it will remain the home of opera and never will...
...Frank Kaslov, king of the gypsies, journeyed to Milan. His ticket was paid for by 600 U. S. gypsy families, who desired to see the old queen with a grandson and the young king with a wife. But in Milan, Italy, the women were not as his mother had said. "Go to Padua," a stranger advised him. But in Padua a plague had left the gypsy women with pocked cheeks. Too much child-bearing had broadened the gypsies of Cadiz. It was not until he went to Marseilles, on the advice of a knowing uncle, that he found his girl...