Word: monu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through a drizzling rain, the coffin was carried on its final trip to Milan's Monu-mentale Cemetery, where three massed choirs sang the famous chorus ("Go our thoughts on golden wings") from Verdi's Nabucco-the same music that Toscanini himself tearfully conducted at Verdi's funeral 56 years ago. Then, without a spoken word, Maestro was placed beside his son and his wife Carla: Section 7, Tomb 184. "Milan and the world of music," reported // Giorno, "knelt at his grave...
Harrison's basic idea for the U.N. was a simple one. "When we started U.N.," he says, "we were not trying to make a monu ment. We were building a workshop - a workshop for world peace. And we tried to make it the best damn we could...