Word: spirito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest drummer, still shouts "Send me, man!" when he is about to launch a percussive volley. Ellington's own soft-spoken orders are a far cry from those used by white bandmasters. At rehearsals, where the routine request would be for a presto or an allegro con spirito, Ellington says. "Get off, now- Sock it!" Where symphonic conductors would call for a solemn andante the hot jazz command is, "Come on, boys, go to church...
...Italy mobilized for the relief of the stricken district. From his desk in the red brick palazzo Venezia, Il Duce ordered to the stricken district five regiments, a squadron of observation planes, and his brand new Earthquake Relief Train. From the Vatican Pope Pius sent a special nuncio, Mgr. Spirito Chiapetta. Little King Vittorio Emanuele went himself, motored from village to village. Exhausted soldiers and rescue squads, grief-stricken peasants glimpsed a pair of bright eyes and the top of His Majesty's campaign cap as the car passed, were comforted...