Word: scalero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...affairs. On the way back to Italy, she stopped in New York, and asked Tullio Serafin, then a top conductor at the Metropolitan, what she should do with her talented but untempered son. The next thing Gian-Carlo knew, he had been plunked down before Composition Teacher Rosario Scalero at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music. He knew hardly a word of English...
Recalls Teacher Scalero, now 79, retired and living in Italy: "The boy had some stuff in him, but he was most undisciplined and raw." Fixing him with a stern eye, he said, "GianCarlo, if I am to teach you, we must come to an agreement, you and I. I promise you that I will be uncompromisingly severe. Do you promise me to put in some very hard work, something you have never done before?" Gian-Carlo promised. And, says Scalero, "he abided by his agreement." Thanks to Scalero's perseverance in making him compose simple motets (polyphonic choral works...
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