Word: rusticana
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Pietro Mascagni had one flash of genius. He was 26, a penniless ex-conductor of a fourth-rate itinerant Italian opera company, when he heard of a prize contest for a new one-act opera. In eight feverish days and nights he wrote Cavalleria Rusticana, a fast-moving, lyric tale of love and murder in a Sicilian square at Eastertide. It won the prize, got its composer 40 curtain calls at its first performance in May 1890, and subsequently the Order of the Crown of Italy. In Manhattan, Oscar Hammerstein produced Cavalleria in English, and the Metropolitan Opera...
Pietro Mascagni, 80-year-old composer of Cavalleria Rusticana, who has long been a favorite of Mussolini's Black Shirts...
Pietro Mascagni, 79, Italy's famed one-hit composer (Cavalleria Rusticana), was reported bundled into the safety of Vatican City. He saw Cavalleria first produced 53 years ago; his last production was a 1935 flopera about Nero...
Lift Every Voice's rolling phrases and solemn, striding music (hintful of the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana) are not new. They were whipped out in 1900 by two Negroes for a Lincoln's Birthday celebration of Negro schoolchildren in Jacksonville. Author is the late James Weldon Johnson, writer, lyricist, educator, first Negro to become a U.S. consul, secretary for 14 years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Composer is his equally famed brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, popular song writer (Under the Bamboo Tree, Nobody's Lookin' but the Owl and the Moon...
...labored over his puppets, in 1938 gave a public show which was a critical success but a financial flop. In 1939 he was signed up by Gas Exhibits, Inc. at the New York World's Fair, performed his repertory-Carmen, Faust, Rigoletto, Pagliacci, Aïda, Traviata, Cavalleria Rusticana-to audiences which were 85% grownup. Since the autumn of 1939 the troupe has toured 100,000 miles...