[mascagni-interest] Mascagni Leads His Thousands

[Erik Bruchez]

Dear list,

I just posted an interesting (albeit retrospectively not too glorious,
but note that this was ten years before World War II and Fascism's
worst realizations) document: a 1-page "article" published in Musical
America of May 25, 1929 featuring Mascagni conducting an orchestra of
five thousand musicians:

  http://www.mascagni.org/book-reader/image/507467/1/0

The text reads:

"Music as an indispensable part of national life is a well-recognized
 fact by the Italian Fascisti, knowing the Italian love of spectacle,
 the powers that rule gathered together five thousand musicians in the
 national stadium in Rome for a recent Fascisti anniversary
 celebration and many fives of thousands of people gathered to
 listen. Musicans, in modern Rome, have taken the place of lions."

"Above is a general view of the national stadium with the orchestra of
 five thousand, and at the left is Pietro Mascagni, conducting
 'Youth', the Facisct hymn."

-Erik
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