Word: tullio
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...enfant prodige" around Milanese salons. His mother put an end to that. Father Menotti had died, so she packed Gian-Carlo off to Colombia with her to settle her husband's 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...
...basic attribute of Western sculpture, that look of motion kept reappearing throughout the Met's show. It was present in Tullio Lombardo's 15th Century Adam and in Jean Antoine Houdon's 18th Century masterpiece, The Bather. A 20th Century example was the lie de France, a nude female torso by the late great Frenchman Aristide Maillol, who had gone so far as to imitate even the damages to classical sculpture by leaving off head, arms arid feet...
Verdi: Aïda (Beniamino Gigli, tenor; Maria Caniglia, soprano; Ebe Stignani, mezzo-soprano; Gino Bechi, baritone; Italo Tajo, bass, and others with the Rome Opera Orchestra and chorus, Tullio Serafin conducting; Victor, 40 sides). With such a cast, Aïda should have come off brilliantly; instead, it just barely comes off, with some good singing (Ebe Stignani's) and some bad (e.g., Gigli's Celeste Aïda is painful). Recording: fair...
...bombing raid that wrecked and burned their town, Carla and Giulia, cousins in their mid-teens, lost their grandmother in whose house they had lived. Alone and hungry, they turned for help to Carla's boy friend, Tullio, leader of a gang which preyed on the ruins of the town and prepared arms for a future Communist uprising. Tullio installed them in an abandoned brothel, where the three set up house, living off the money Tullio stole and Carla made as a prostitute...
Verdi: Requiem Mass (Soprano Maria Camgha, Mezzo-Soprano Ebe Stignani, Tenor Beniamino Gigli, Basso Ezio Pinza' with the Rome Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Tullio Serafin conducting-Victor: 20 sides; $10.50). No ardent Catholic Verdi wrote this Requiem for the anniversary of the death of his friend, Italy's Poet Alessandro Manzoni. The Requiem's melting arias, its thumping drums of doom and trumps of wrath have been damned as operatic. In this recent recording of the Mass, Basso Pinza and the chorus sing superbly, Tenor Gigli sounds prosciutto (Italian ham), Maestro Serafin conducts with shattering intensity...