Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successful WQXR, WBMS could never get the big accounts that demand a large audience. And people who listen to classical music by and large refuse to patronize the small stores that do advertise on WBMS. Instead, these people complain about the interrupted light classics and Pops, and the Italian hours. Those who couldn't be bothered complaining stopped listening...
...Bicycle Thief. The Italian classic about a Roman workman whose livelihood hinges on finding his stolen bicycle (TIME...
...Curtis, Gian-Carlo Menotti met another young composition student named Samuel Barber who, luckily for Gian-Carlo, had studied Italian. Sam's mother...
...Leroy Barber, who does not speak Italian, recalls Gian-Carlo's first visit to their West Chester, Pa. home. They could only stare at each other when Sam was out of the room. Finally, when it became time to leave, Mrs. Barber recalls, Gian-Carlo shook her hand warmly and tried to explain: "I have many thinks but few words...
Menotti, still an Italian citizen, often stammers in his native language, but after 20 years in the U.S., his English is unfaltering and fluent. When he sits down to work his ideas into words & music, he finds that suggestions for both generally occur to him simultaneously. The result, as in his heroine's second-act aria in The Consul, is not only moving music but clean, singable English...