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Ballets By Vittorio Rieti
Vittorio Rieti (January 28, 1898 – February 19, 1994) was a Jewish-Italian-American composer. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Rieti moved to Milan to study economics. He subsequently studied in Rome under Respighi and Casella, and lived there until 1940."Rieti, Vittorio" in ''Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musicians'', ed. Laura Kuhn. Schirmer Books, 1997. In 1925, he temporarily moved to Paris and composed music for George Balanchine's ballet for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, ''Barabau''. He met his wife in Alexandria, Egypt. He was a cousin of actor Vittorio Rietti. He emigrated to the United States in 1940, becoming a naturalized American citizen on 1 June 1944. He taught at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore (1948–49), Chicago Musical College (1950–54), Queens College, New York (1958–60), and New York College of Music (1960–64). He died in New York on 19 February 1994. His music is tonal and neo-classical with a melodic and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of historical History of ancient Israel and Judah, Israel and Judah. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood, and religion are strongly interrelated, "Historically, the religious and ethnic dimensions of Jewish identity have been closely interwoven. In fact, so closely bound are they, that the traditional Jewish lexicon hardly distinguishes between the two concepts. Jewish religious practice, by definition, was observed exclusively by the Jewish people, and notions of Jewish peoplehood, nation, and community were suffused with faith in the Jewish God, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonality
Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and/or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions and directionality. In this hierarchy, the single pitch or triadic chord with the greatest stability is called the tonic. The root of the tonic chord forms the name given to the key, so in the key of C major, the note C is both the tonic of the scale and the root of the tonic chord (which is C–E–G). Simple folk music songs often start and end with the tonic note. The most common use of the term "is to designate the arrangement of musical phenomena around a referential tonic in European music from about 1600 to about 1910". Contemporary classical music from 1910 to the 2000s may practice or avoid any sort of tonality—but harmony in almost all Western popular music remains tonal. Harmony in jazz includes many but not all tonal characteristics of the European common practice period, usually known as "classical music". "All harmonic idioms in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Ballet Composers
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1994 Deaths
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1898 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. * January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, ''J'Accuse…!'', is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper ''L'Aurore'', accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. * February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. * February 15 – Spanish–American War: The USS ''Maine'' explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba, for reasons never fully established, killing 266 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camillo Mastrocinque
Camillo Mastrocinque (11 May 1901 – 23 April 1969) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 60 films between 1937 and 1968, and is known to horror film fans for directing ''Terror in the Crypt'' (1964) starring Christopher Lee, and ''An Angel for Satan'' (1966) starring Barbara Steele. Selected filmography * ''Queen of the Scala'' (1937) * ''I Want to Live with Letizia'' (1938) * '' The Cuckoo Clock'' (1938) * ''Don Pasquale'' (1940) * '' The Last Dance'' (1941) * ''Fedora'' (1942) * '' A Living Statue'' (1943) * '' Lost in the Dark'' (1947) * ''Be Seeing You, Father'' (1948) * '' The Fighting Men'' (1950) * ''That Ghost of My Husband'' (1950) * ''Anna's Sin'' (1952) * ''Toto in Hell'' (1955) * '' Are We Men or Corporals?'' (1955) * ''Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy'' (1956) * ''Toto, Peppino and the Outlaws'' (1956) * ''The Band of Honest Men'' (1956) * ''Totò lascia o raddoppia?'' (1956) * ''The Lady Doctor'' (1957) * ''The Beautiful Legs of Sab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cuckoo Clock (film)
''The Cuckoo Clock'' (Italian: ''L'orologio a cucù'') is a 1938 Italian historical mystery thriller film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque and starring Vittorio De Sica, Oretta Fiume and Laura Solari.Aprà p.85 It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome and on location in Livorno. The film's sets were designed by artistic director Gino Brosio. Synopsis At the time of Napoleon's escape from Elba, a wealthy banker from Livorno hides his gold in a cuckoo clock to protect it from seizure by revolutionaries. Cast * Vittorio De Sica as Il capitano Ducci * Oretta Fiume as Paolina * Laura Solari as Elvira * Lamberto Picasso as Il conte Scarabelli * Ugo Ceseri as Barni, il fanatico bonapartista * Gemma Bolognesi as La 'Nenna' * Guglielmo Sinaz as Il banchiere Rosen * Augusto Marcacci as Kreuss, l'ispettore di polizia * Guglielmo Barnabò as Il sergente MacNeill * Sergio Dani as Il lord ammiraglio * Checco Rissone as Narciso * Giuseppe Pierozzi Giuseppe Pierozzi (8 March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Lacombe (film Director)
Georges Lacombe (1902 – 1990) was a French film director. Filmography *1928: '' La Zone'' (short) *1931: '' Boule de gomme'' *1932: ' *1933: '' La Femme invisible'' *1933: '' Un jour d'été'' *1934: ''Youth'' *1935: '' Épousez ma femme'' *1935: '' La Route heureuse'' *1936: '' Le cœur dispose'' *1938: ''Café de Paris'' *1939: ''Behind the Facade'' *1939: ''Musicians of the Sky'' *1940: ''Paris-New York'' *1940: ''They Were Twelve Women'' *1941: ''The Last of the Six'' *1941: '' Montmartre-sur-Seine'' *1942: '' Le Journal tombe à cinq heures'' *1942: ''Monsieur La Souris'' *1943: ''The Stairs Without End'' *1944: '' Florence est folle'' *1946: ''Land Without Stars'' *1946: ''Martin Roumagnac'' *1947: '' Les Condamnés'' *1948: '' Prélude à la gloire'' *1951: ''The Night Is My Kingdom'' *1952: ''Les Sept Péchés capitaux'', segment ''Le Huitième péché'' *1953: '' The Call of Destiny'' *1953: ''Their Last Night ''Their Last Night'' (French: ''Leur dernière nuit' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Happy Road
''The Happy Road'' is a 1957 French-American comedy film starring Gene Kelly, Barbara Laage, Michael Redgrave and Bobby Clark. Its plot involves two students (a boy and girl) who escape from their Swiss private school and make for Paris. Their respective parents, an American father and a French mother, together embark on a wide journey around the countryside, getting local police involved in finding them, with many whimsical situations, including riding on a police motorcycle, and encountering military maneuvers and a bicycle race. Plot Cast *Mike Andrews - Gene Kelly *Suzanne Duval - Barbara Laage *Danny Andrews - Bobby Clark *Janine Duval - Brigitte Fossey *General Medworth - Michael Redgrave *Doctor Salaise - Roger Tréville *Hélène - Colette Dereal *Madame Fallière - Maryse Martin *Motorcycle Officer - Van Doude *Armbruster - Colin Mann *The Woodcutter - Alexandre Rignault *David, Earl of Bardingham - T. Bartlett *Carpenter - Paul Préboist Critical reception Allmov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Franchini
is a character created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the title character of the ''Mario'' franchise and the mascot of Japanese video game company Nintendo. Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his creation. Depicted as a short, pudgy, Italian plumber who resides in the Mushroom Kingdom, his adventures generally center on rescuing Princess Peach from the Koopa villain Bowser. Mario has access to a variety of power-ups that give him different abilities. Mario's fraternal twin brother is Luigi. Mario first appeared as the player character of ''Donkey Kong'' (1981), a platform game. Miyamoto wanted to use Popeye as the protagonist, but when he could not achieve the licensing rights, he created Mario instead. Miyamoto expected the character to be unpopular and planned to use him for cameo appearances; originally called "Mr. Video", he was renamed to Mario after Mario Segale. Mario's clothing and characteristics were themed after the setting o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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