Word: francesco
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...steel headpiece, or morion, dates from 1575 and was worn in the state guard of Francesco de Medici, while the one of gold is a burgonet of 1550 from the Papal Guard. Both pieces represent the half century when the decoration of armor was most splendid without detracting from its defense...
...weeks instead of the usual six, promised 21 operas in all. Though French and Italian operas predominate, two complete cycles of The Ring are to be sung and Wilhelm Furtwängler will conduct them both. Besides Beecham, conductors include such notables as Artur Rodzinski, John Barbirolli, Fritz Reiner. Francesco Sain. Eugene Goossens will conduct the world premiere of his Don Juan of Manara, an opera he wrote to the late Arnold Bennett's libretto. Lawrence Tibbett will have the title role, after making his European debut in Tosca...
...preservation and spread of the virtues of modesty and purity," a League of Modesty was founded two years ago by Roman Catholics in Chicago. Last week this League, headed by a Franciscan named Rev. Celestine Strub, presented a Modest Woman's Creed based upon the preachings of Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani, Vicar General of Pope Pius XI. Recommended to all good Catholic women, it urges...
Marcia Reale ItalianaGabetti *Ballet Suite from, "Aida" Verdi *Serenade Toscelli *Fantasia, "Pagliacci" Leoncavallo *Overture to "William Tell" Rossini *Aria, "Che gelida manina," from "La Boheme" Puceini Solist: Francesco Albanese, Tenor Rhapsody, "Italia" Casella *Ballet of the Hours from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli *Waltz, "H Bacio" Arditi Dance of the Camorrists from "The Jewels of the Madonna" Wolf-Ferrari Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...canvases Canaletto showed Venice of the fine buildings, clear, speckled sunlight, gondolas, nobles in skirted coats, poor fishermen, dogs, but no filth. Pietro Longhi charmingly showed the noble nonentities at home, drinking coffee, playing cards and Blind-Man's-Buff, attending a noblewoman who has faked a swoon. Francesco Guardi picks out with an astonishingly sparkling and impressionistic use of light the lagoons of Venice. Of Tiepolo, greatest of them all, last week's show included but two examples, the better a slick, overdramatic Crucifixion...