Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pounder. The outstanding contrabassoonist in the U.S. is a short, dignified Neapolitan named Roberto Sensale, of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Sensale first aspired to the cello. But when he applied for a scholarship at the Royal Conservatory of Naples, the only opening was a course in bassoon playing. In 1922 he joined the Philharmonic as a bassoonist. Fifteen years later, at the death of the Philharmonic's veteran contrabassoonist, a stately Anglo-German named William Conrad, Sensale moved down an octave to take his place...
Wagner: Tristan & Isolde, Excerpts from Act III (Lauritz Melchior and Herbert Janssen with the orchestra of the Colon Opera, Buenos Aires, and the Columbia Opera Orchestra, Roberto Kinsky and Erich Leinsdorf, conductors; Columbia; 10 sides). A superb slice of Tristan's last act, including almost everything except the famed Liebestod (which is separately available). Melchior, greatest of living Tristans, sings his mad scene as though he meant it. Recording: excellent...
...Benito Mussolini had few left. Most influential of his fellow puppets: tall, peasant-tough Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, chief organizer of the Fascist Republican Army which helps the Wehrmacht curb restive northern Italy; dapper, sensual Lawyer Alessandro Pavolini, secretary and chief organizer of the neo-Fascist Party; arrogant, church-baiting Roberto Farinacci, the boss of Cremona Province...
...Roberto Medellin of the Ministry of Labor said last week that no laborers will be sent to Texas for the time being because "cases of extreme, intolerable racial discrimination" were continuing...
...release. The Berlin claim fitted into Adolf Hitler's unfolding scheme for Italy under Nazi control. That scheme called for a puppet Fascist regime, set up in Mussolini's name but probably under direction of one of Fascismo's toughest big shots, ex-Party Secretary Roberto Farinacci, who has escaped to Germany...