[mascagni-interest] Web site update

[Erik Bruchez]

Dear list,

A few new items have been posted on the Web site recently:

1. A review of Alan Mallach's "Pietro Mascagni and his Operas", by
   Roger Flury:
     http://www.mascagni.org/articles/flury-200306

2. "Die Rantzau", Oper von Pietro Mascagni, an article published in
   1893 in the Deutsche Illustrierte Zeitung (in German):
     http://www.mascagni.org/articles/mittelstadt-1893-deutsche

   The first paragraphs of the article are missing. I think the other
   article about I Rantzau on the Web site, probably published at the
   end of 1892, provides more insight into the opera:
     http://www.mascagni.org/articles/unknown-1892-rantzau

   However, the article came with a beautiful full-page (27.8 x 37.4
   cm) original engraving by Alb. Wirth, that you can contemplate in
   full here:
     http://www.mascagni.org/book-reader/image/506062/1/0

   I like the German Gothic script (also called Fraktur) in which the
   article was written:
     http://www.mascagni.org/book-reader/image/506062/2/300

   That script was used in Germany for almost all printed text since
   the first prints of the Gutenberg bible until 1941 when it was
   banned (the ban has since been left but the Germans did not go back
   to that script).
   This article confirms the attention given to Mascagni in the years
   following the success of Cavalleria.
3. "Opera Makers of To-day", an article published in 1903 in Munsey's
   Magazine:
     http://www.mascagni.org/articles/minkowsky-1903-munseys

   This article is interesting in part because Mascagni is referred to
   as the leader of the "nuova scuola", before Puccini, Leoncavallo,
   and Giordano. His picture is the most prominent in the whole
   article.
4. A new FAQ entry regarding Mascagni's orchestral works:

     http://www.mascagni.org/faq#q12

Enjoy,

-Erik

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