Word: moszkowski
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...menu, prepared for Cognac King Walter Dupuys: The hors d'oeuvres alone took up a half page of small type and were served to the accompaniment of "an ensemble of harp, flute, two violins and guitar, [playing] Venetian songs of gaiety." The soup required a guitar rendering of Moszkowski's Malagueña, the escarole salad the playing of Götterdämmerung. Some 4,000 canaries chirped together with Italian and Hawaiian singers, against a backdrop painted by the Metropolitan Opera's Scenarist Rosa. Alpine scenes were made of 400 baskets of strawberries, nougat...