Word: federico
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...musical taste of the Queen of Italy to be trusted? If so, Robbiani deserves to be known, for after the première of his Anna Karenina at the Teatro Costanzi, Rome, she invited him into the Royal Box and complimented him effusively. A distinguished Italian critic, Federico Candida, used the following somewhat confused expressions in describing the music: "Accentuated, even excessive, passion-evident research-sacred fervor-rich harmony-harmful sonority- heavy orchestration-exuberance and defects-character and distinction. . . ." One may wonder about the esthetic fitness of entrusting so indelibly Russian a theme as Anna to an Italian...
...Died. Federico Boyd, onetime President of the Republic of Panama; after a sudden collapse, in Manhattan. He was a correspondent for The New York Times at the time the Republic was founded. His father, an American of Scotch ancestry, went to 'Central America during the gold rush. A son and daughter survive. The son's wife is Mrs. Elizabeth Boiling Boyd, niece of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson...