Word: zucca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helen Jerome's poem, Nichavo, set to music by Mana-Zucca to become the darling of student singers, distinctly translates the word (with the change in spelling) as "What's it matter...
...great women composers, and few even moderately good ones. Biggest female name in music was the late Frenchwoman Cécile Chaminade. A composer who does not mind being called the American Chaminade is a plump little blonde woman, nearing 50, who is known on concert programs as Mana-Zucca. Last week Mana-Zucca finished her 1,000th composition, a children's musical play called The Gingerbread House. Then, instead of letting well enough alone, she wrote her 1,100st, a song entitled Music I Heard With...
...Mana-Zucca was born Mana Zuckerman, in New York City. She was musically prodigious. Her pressagents claim that, on her third birthday, she furiously demolished a toy piano because it had no F sharp and she could not play The Last Rose of Slimmer on it. Mana-Zucca made her debut as a pianist at eight with the New York Symphony under Dr. Walter Damrosch. Year later she published her first composition...
...Mana-Zucca's most famed song, a favorite of lusty singers like Baritone John Charles Thomas, is I Love Life (so I want to live and drink of life's fullness, take all it can give ...'). This she wrote in 40 minutes, to a lyric by her husband, Bond Broker Irwin Cassel. whom she married after his 46th proposal. They have a son, Marwin (portmanteau for Mana-Irwin) Cassel, 15, whom Mana-Zucca calls "my best composition...
Author of such vocal successes as The Big Brown Bear Went Woof; J'Ever-Hm? I Did! Bitty Buzz; Rachem; Nichavo, Mana-Zucca has also written orchestral pieces, a piano concerto, a raft of piano pieces. Four top-notch publishers- Schirmer, Presser, Fischer, Church-snap up her output, which is steady. Songs & snatches come to her at the piano, in her garden in Miami, where she spends seven months a year, or at her dining table. Soon to be published is another Mana-Zucca work: Spinach and 'Leven Other Funny Children's Songs. Said Mana-Zucca last...