Word: roma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first orchestral music of the season. The first to break the summer's silence was Mr. Van Hoogstraten with the Philharmonic. The major feature of the program was the Sinfonia Drammatica of Ottorino Respighi. Signer Respighi has hitherto been known as the composer of the agreeable Fontane di Roma. His latest offering, while it has never before been heard in Manhattan, actually was composed before the other, and shows it. It is an effective com- position, but with traces of immaturity and it is unhappily reminiscent. There is Tchaikovsky in it, and Puccini, Strauss and, above all, Wagner...
...Italian Government decided to repay $25,000,000 worth of bonds maturing in the U. S. next February. Surprise was expressed that the bonds should be paid off without recourse to fresh borrowing. An agent of the Banco di Roma was able to explain the mystery. "Italy's financial condition," said he, "is continually improving. The Kingdom would find no convenience in again resorting to the American market because there is plenty of money at home...
...Richard B. Moore again championed helium as an aeronautic gas. The Dixmude, ZR-2, and Roma disasters would not have occurred, if it had been used, he said. Within a year or two, the cost of production will be practically as cheap as for hydrogen...
...Circulo Espanol will hold an open meeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock at Phillips Brooks House. Mr. J. San Roma, the celebrated pianist from the New England Conservatory of Music, who will assist Jascha Heifetz and Paderewski in their coming Boston concerts, will render an interpretation of Granado's selections. Mr. Ramon Ricalde, the Spanish tenor who is to join the San Cario Opera Company, has also consented to sing a few Spanish songs...
...next and most astounding assertion was that D'Annunzio is not Italian. Where he got this idea is beyond imagination, D'Annunzio was born at Francavilla, Italy; he is the son of Duchessa Maria Gallese di Roma--she is Italian; he received his education in the College of Prato and University of Rome--both are Italian and in Italy. He has been a member of the Italian Chamber; he is a captain in the Italian army; his speech is Italian; his dress is Italian; his food is Italian; and finally his blood is Italian...