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Incomparably the most popular of contemporary composers, Puccini was born at Lucca, Italy, 1858. His father, his grandfather, his great-grandfather had all composed music. He attracted attention when his one-act opera Le Villi was successfully performed at La Scala, Milan. His next work, Edgar, was a failure; but he won note with Manon Lescaut, and international fame with La Bohème. Tosca and Madame Butterfly followed. The Girl of the Golden West, based on a drama by David Belasco, produced at the Metropolitan with Caruso and Emmy Destinn, did not long survive,* nor did the three short...
...works specified by M. Vigoroux as spurious include 1) A ceramic piece attributed to Lucca della Robbia, 15th Century Florentine sculptor, sold to an official of the Metropolitan for $3,000, and "not worth a sou." (The Metropolitan contains only one della Robbia?a terra cotta bas-relief entitled Prudence, bought in 1921 under the bequest of Joseph Pulitzer.) 2) A 15th Century statue of St. Paul, sold to Assistant Curator Breck, of the Metropolitan, for $3,000. 3) A bas-relief group, Les Lansquenets (a former type of German footsoldier; the figures were called "devils" by the people...
...that made him the last gentleman of the old grand manner. Today Ms voice has diminished in quality, but he still sings with all of his great mastery of style and interpretation. Our own Scotti of the Metropolitan Opera House is no callow youth, neither is Didur nor De Lucca nor Rothier. But these fellows are baritones and bassos, who are notable for being devils hard to kill. The marvel of Agostini's case is that he is a tenor. A tenor with a voice at 50 is a great rarity. Caruso, who was 49 when he died...
...Woodward, Sophile Newcomb College Business Saturday, April 7 Fogg Art Museum at 8 P. M. A. B. Davies, Duncan Phillips, Washington The Appreciation of Art, A. K. Coomarasway, Museum of Fine Arts The Art Division of the American Ceramic Society, E. M. Blake, New York City Della Quercia in Lucca, G. G. Kings, Bryn Mawr College Christian Catacombs in Rome, Dana Rice, Dartmouth College Antiques, H. E. Keyes, Boston The Decorating of a State Capital, John Pickard, University of Missouri The American School at Athens in 1922, Myrtilla Avery, Princeton University The Principles of Portraiture, H. R. Cross...
...while the book is primarily concerned with Caruso's methods, a great deal of enjoyable biography creeps into it. Thus we hear of him as a schoolboy of Naples, playing hookey and swimming in the bay. He did not take kindly to education or to work in the De Lucca Mechanical Laboratories where his father was employed, and so on his mother's death, Enrico, aged fifteen, left home and became a scugnizzo, a wandering singer of the streets, singing for a few soldi or for the pure joy of song. He was called "Arichetielli," and soon became known...