Word: ruggiero
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After years of wrestling his bull fiddle in & out of taxicabs, a Newark musician named Peter Ruggiero invented a collapsible bass viol which folds into a package no bigger than a saxophone case...
Paganini Recital (Ruggiero Ricci, violin, with Louis Persinger, piano; Vox, 6 sides). A talented 26-year-old, who is soloist with the American Broadcasting Co. String Orchestra, uses these six show pieces of Paganini's to show that he is more nimble-fingered than some of the bigger names. Performance: excellent...
...realism of plot and tender score, the first performance of La Bohème was a success. The critics aloofly condemned Puccini for writing down to the mob. But there were 15 curtain calls. The great Giuseppe Verdi was notably absent, but Pietro (Cavalleria Rusticana) Mascagni and Ruggiero (Pagliacci) Leoncavallo, sitting in boxes, led the cheering. Tall, droop-mustached Giacomo Puccini, 37, tearfully embraced Toscanini. La Bohème, a work with a realistic human story,* has been one of the most popular operas ever since...
...sickle: 1) the Party, as represented by longheaded, Comintern-trained Palmiro Togliatti, Minister of Justice in Parri's coalition cabinet; 2) L'Apparato (The Apparatus), a secret organization, set up for strikes and possible violent action. L'Apparato is reputedly bossed by Italy-born, Russia-naturalized Ruggiero Grieco...
Dunstedter's prize catch for the group is swarthy, pint-sized Private Woodrow Wilson Rich (famed boy-prodigy violinist Ruggiero Ricci)* and his cellist brother George Washington Rich. Wood Wilson Rich (who has developed a soldierly liking for hot dogs) sits in the middle of the second row of violinists, fiddles such Santa Ana numbers as Jive Bomber on his $3,000 Lorenzo Storione violin...