Word: rusticana
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...program is as follows: Pomp and Circumstance Elgar Overture to "Sakuntala" Goldmark Fantasia, "L'Oracolo" Leoni College Songs Suite, "Sleeping Beauty" Tchaikovsky Meditation from "Thais" Massenet Serenade, Op. 3, No. 5 Rachmaninov Ride of the Valkyries Wagner Selection, "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni By the Waters of Minnetonka Lieurance-Jascha Charge of the Bussars Spindler
...music and was active in extra-curriculum musical work. After leaving college in 1906 he collaborated with J. C. Goodwin '73, in many Broadway successes. He then became interested in conducting and took charge of the orchestras of several big musical shows and operettas, including a production of Cavalleria Rusticana. He composed songs and scores for a number of musical comedies. After this he went on the road for some years "learning that anything constitutes an orchestra from a jewsharp to an accordion, and that bad musicians on he one-nighters were as often good blacksmiths, cobblers and back drivers...
Extremely sage bets: Inventor Marconi; Soldier-patriot-poet-playwright d'Annunzio; Composer Toscanini (director of La, Scala, Milan, "The Foremost Opera House of Europe"); Conductor Mascagni (composer of the score for Cavalleria Rusticana); Philosopher-satirist-playwright Pirandello (author of Six Characters in Search of an Author, a play hailed with acclaim on Broadway); Statesman Mussolini and as many Fascist statesmen as are able to get in under the limit of 60 Immortales...
...Turlet 4. Largo, "From the New World" Symphony Dvorak Intermission 5. Suite, "Children's Corner" Debussy-Caplet a. Quincho's Lullaby b. Serenade for the Doll c. Golliwog's Cake Walk 6. Prelude to "Carmen" Bizet 7. Berceuse Slave Neruda-Jacchia 8. Rhapsody, "Espana" Chabrier Intermission 9. Fantasia, "Cavaleria Rusticana" Mascagni 10. Waltz, "Missouri" 11. Hungarian Dance No. 1 Brahms
...these truths were demonstrated afresh during the first week of the San Carlo season at the Jolson Theatre in Manhattan. Gallo provided the stuff that was expected of him, including Rigoletto, Tosca, La Traviata, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci. Consequently, there was a stiletto scene on the stage almost every night. But the performers' dagger-technique was sadly wanting in fire and dash. Manipulation of throat lozenges evidently was considered of superior importance to the handling of cold steel...