Word: puccini
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Last week Fisk was preparing to install a Van Vechten gift, the George Gershwin Memorial Collection of Music and Musical Literature, which may be the South's best musical library. It includes letters (by Gershwin, Puccini, Humperdinck, Gounod, Meyerbeer-but none by Negro musicians), operatic and other scores, U.S. first editions, a vast heap of recordings, bursting scrapbooks of U.S. musical history. All this can hardly fail to seduce white scholars from Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Chapel Hill and Duke Universities...
...with charming some comic local lackeys and an eager Broadway producer (Walter Catlett). At last, at a Butlers' Ball, she utters some high notes which pierce the heart of her brother's boss. She also sings a slice of hickory-smoked Victor Herbert and an aria from Puccini's Turandot with her familiar verve. But as the verses go on, on, on and, by way of variation, on, some customers may feel that Art is the longest distance between two points...
Last week Parisians wildly applauded this scene in a performance of Puccini's opera La Tosca. They found in it an emotional release from their own pent-up bitterness and frustration under police tyranny. And never, they said, had the role been acted so realistically. It never had. The curtain did not rise again. Neither did the Baron. Petit Parisien reported that in the excitement of the performance the villain had actually been stabbed...
...Verdi, Puccini, DeemsTaylor...
...Italy's war machine in Albania began to roll. Greece was soon officially charged not only with local violence but with plotting to give Great Britain the use of sea and air bases for operations against Italy. At 3 a.m. on Oct. 28 the Puccini-loving Italian Minister handed to Greek Premier General John Metaxas a three-hour ultimatum demanding surrender of Greek territorial integrity. Metaxas refused it and addressed his people...