Word: trento
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bonporti: Concerti a Quattro (I Musici Ensemble; Epic). Four of the ten polyphonic concertos, marked Opus n by a recently discovered Italian Jesuit philosopher whose lifelong ambition was not to compose music but to become canon at the Cathedral of Trento. Bonporti (1672-1749), who remained an ordinary priest and died brokenhearted, abandoned Corelli's standard concerto-grosso form, loaded his dialogues between violins, violas and bass with such a personal, rhythmic melody that he became a forerunner of 19th century romanticism...
...Himself born in the area, near Trento. He grew up an Austrian citizen, served seven years in the Austrian Parliament before entering Italian politics. To his death in 1954 he spoke Italian with a trace of an Austrian accent...
Appellate Action. In Trento, Italy, informed that her laborer husband had been fired from his job, Mrs. Speranza Antonelli knocked him out with a club, had an afterthought, dropped in on his foreman, knocked him unconscious...