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Egisto Macchi
Egisto Macchi (4 August 1928 – 8 August 1992) was an Italian composer. Biography Born in Grosseto, Macchi moved to Rome to study composition, piano, violin and singing with Roman Vlad (1946–51) and Hermann Scherchen (1949–54), among others. It was around this period that he also studied literature and human physiology at La Sapienza University. From the late fifties, he began his collaboration with a group of musicians ( Franco Evangelisti, Domenico Guaccero and Daniele Paris), to whom he was bound by intense friendship. Together with Domenico Guaccero, Daniele Paris and Antonino Titone, he was one of the editors of the magazine ''Orders'', which first appeared in 1959. With Bertoncini, Bortolotti, Clementi, De Blasio, Evangelisti, Guaccero, Paris, Pennisi, and Franco Norris, he founded the Association of New Consonance in 1960. He made a frequent hand at directing the association, and he held the office of President from 1980 to 1982, and also in 1989. From the day of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grosseto
Grosseto () is a city and a ''comune'' in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the province of Grosseto and the main city of the Maremma region. The city lies from the Tyrrhenian Sea, at the centre of an alluvial plain on the Ombrone river. It is the most populous city in Maremma, with 82,284 inhabitants. The comune of Grosseto includes the ''frazioni'' of Marina di Grosseto, the largest one, Roselle, Principina a Mare, Principina Terra, Montepescali, Braccagni, Istia d'Ombrone, Batignano, Alberese and Rispescia. History The origins of Grosseto can be traced back to the High Middle Ages. It was first mentioned in 803 as a fief of the Counts Aldobrandeschi, in a document recording the assignment of St. George's Church to Ildebrando degli Aldobrandeschi, whose successors were counts of the Grossetana Mark until the end of the 12th century. Grosseto steadily grew in importance, owing to the decline of Rusellae and Vetulonia until it was one of the princip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant Garde
In the arts and literature, the term ''avant-garde'' ( meaning or ) identifies an experimental genre or work of art, and the artist who created it, which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time. The military metaphor of an ''advance guard'' identifies the artists and writers whose innovations in style, form, and subject-matter challenge the artistic and aesthetic validity of the established forms of art and the literary traditions of their time; thus, the artists who created the anti-novel and Surrealism were ahead of their times. As a stratum of the intelligentsia of a society, avant-garde artists promote progressive and radical politics and advocate for societal reform with and through works of art. In the essay "The Artist, the Scientist, and the Industrialist" (1825), Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues's political usage of ''vanguard'' identified the moral obligation of artists to "serve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte (1981 Film)
'' Charlotte'' is a 1981 West German-Dutch film directed by Frans Weisz. It is a biography about German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, who died in the Holocaust. Cast * Birgit Doll ... Charlotte Salomon * Elisabeth Trissenaar ... Paulinka * Brigitte Horney ... Grandma * Max Croiset... Albert *Peter Capell ... Grandfather *Derek Jacobi ... Daberlohn * Buddy Elias ... Herr Schwartz *Peter Faber ... Frits Blech * Eric Vaessen ... Herr Deutscher * Maria Machado ... Frau Schwartz * Shireen Strooker ... Mukki * Lous Hensen ... Frau Deutscher * Yoka Berretty ... Frau Morgan *Patricia Hodge ... Teacher * Irene Jarosch ... Magda Reception Salomon's biographer Mary Lowenthal Felstiner calls the film "poignant", though she thought Derek Jacobi Sir Derek George Jacobi (; born 22 October 1938) is an English actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen as well as for his work at the Royal National Theatre, he has received numerous accolades including a Tony Award, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Days Of Prison
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsieur Klein
''Monsieur Klein'' () is a 1976 mystery drama film directed by Joseph Losey, produced by and starring Alain Delon in the title role. Set in occupied France, the Kafkaesque narrative follows an apparently Gentile Parisian art dealer who is seemingly mistaken for a Jewish man of the same name and targeted in the Holocaust, unable to prove his identity. The film is a French and Italian co-production, and premiered at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. It received widespread acclaim from critics and won three César Awards; Best Film, Best Director (Joseph Losey), and Best Production Design ( Alexandre Trauner). Alain Delon was nominated for Best Actor. Plot Paris, January 1942. France is occupied by the Germans. Robert Klein, apparently apolitical and amoral, is a well-to-do art dealer, Roman Catholic and Alsatian by birth, who takes advantage of French Jews who need to sell artworks to raise cash to leave the country. One day, the local Jewish newspaper, addressed to him, is de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Holiday
''Black Holiday'' () is a 1973 Italian Political cinema, political drama film directed by Marco Leto and starring Adalberto Maria Merli and Adolfo Celi. Cast * Adolfo Celi as Commissioner Rizzuto * Adalberto Maria Merli as Franco Rossini * John Steiner as Scagnetti * Luigi Uzzo as Massanesi * Aldo De Correllis as Prisoner * Gianfranco Barra as Priest * Silvio Anselmo as Inventor * Vito Cipolla as Renzetti * Roberto Herlitzka as Guasco * Biagio Pelligra as Mastrodonato * Giuliano Petrelli as Nino * Nello Riviè as Prisoner * Milena Vukotic as Daria Rossini References External links * 1973 films Italian political drama films 1970s Italian-language films 1970s political drama films 1973 directorial debut films 1973 drama films 1970s Italian films Italian-language drama films Films scored by Egisto Macchi {{1970s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Assassination Of Trotsky
''The Assassination of Trotsky'' is a 1972 historical thriller film directed by Joseph Losey. It dramatizes the killing of exiled Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky by NKVD agent Frank Jacson in Mexico City in 1940. It stars Richard Burton as Trotsky and Alain Delon as Jacson, along with Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese, and Jean Desailly. The film was an Italian, French, and British co-production. It was released by Cinerama Releasing Corporation on April 20, 1972. It received generally negative reviews from critics. Plot Exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929, Leon Trotsky travels from Turkey to France to Norway, before arriving in Mexico in January 1937. The film begins in Mexico City in 1940, during a May Day celebration. Trotsky has not escaped the attention of the Soviet dictator of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, who sends out an assassin named Frank Jacson. The killer decides to infiltrate Trotsky's house by befriending one of the young communists in Trotsky's circl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Days Of Fire
''Days of Fire'' () is a 1968 Italian crime-thriller film written and directed by Mino Guerrini. Premise After being released from prison, elderly Destil plans a heist to secure a peaceful retirement. He forms a gang and attempts to steal a briefcase full of diamonds, but another group of criminals catches onto his plan. Cast * Joseph Cotten as Fabio Destil * Franca Polesello as Franca * Giulio Brogi as Rudy * Giampiero Albertini as Sempre si * Bruno Corazzari as Affattato * Dennis Patrick Kilbane as Biochemist * Jean Louis as Affatato's accomplice * Milly Vitale as Anna * Franco Ressel as Passenger * Linda Sini Production ''Days of Fire'' was written by Fernando Di Leo under the title ''Elegia in un cimitero d'asfalto o Il sol nero'' (. Release ''Days of Fire'' was distributed theatrically in Italy by I.N.D.I.E.F. on 30 April 1968. The film grossed a total of 83,977,000 Italian lire The lira ( , ; : lire, , ) was the currency of Italy between 1861 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandidos (film)
''Bandidos'' is a 1967 spaghetti Western film. It marked the directorial debut of then-cinematographer Massimo Dallamano. Synopsis Renowned gunman Richard Martin is travelling on a train which is held up by Billy Kane, a former student of Martin's. Kane spares Martin, but only after shooting his hands. Years later, Martin meets an escaped convict, wrongly convicted for the train robbery. Martin trains his new student and both men seek out Billy Kane. Cast Production ''Bandidos'' was Massimo Dallamano's first film as a director. The film was produced by Solly V. Bianco, who had previously worked with Dallamano on '' Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West''. The film was an Italian and Spanish co-production, between E.P.I.C. Film (Edizioni Produzioni Internazionali Cinematografic) in Rome and Hesperia Films in Madrid. The film was shot in both Italy and Spain, including near Madrid. In Lazio in Italy, Dallamano shot at the gorge in Tolfa and along the river. Although Emilio Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serialism
In music, serialism is a method of composition using series of pitches, rhythms, dynamics, timbres or other musical elements. Serialism began primarily with Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, though some of his contemporaries were also working to establish serialism as a form of post-tonal thinking. Twelve-tone technique orders the twelve notes of the chromatic scale, forming a row or series and providing a unifying basis for a composition's melody, harmony, structural progressions, and variations. Other types of serialism also work with sets, collections of objects, but not necessarily with fixed-order series, and extend the technique to other musical dimensions (often called " parameters"), such as duration, dynamics, and timbre. The idea of serialism is also applied in various ways in the visual arts, design, and architecture, and the musical concept has also been adapted in literature. Integral serialism or total serialism is the use of series for aspects su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tosca
''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, ''La Tosca'', is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's Campaigns of 1800 in the French Revolutionary Wars#Italy, invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder, and suicide, as well as some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias. Puccini saw Sardou's play when it was touring Italy in 1889 and, after some vacillation, obtained the rights to turn the work into an opera in 1895. Turning the wordy French play into a succinct Italian opera took four years, during which the composer repeatedly argued with his librettists and publisher. ''Tosca'' premiered at a time of unrest in Rome, and its first performance was delayed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
