Re: [mascagni-interest] Mascagni Leads His Thousands

[John Mucci]

What the hell do you do with 5,000 musicians? Think of all those egos.
Berlioz' Requiem, maybe, but  "Giovanezza?" -- the song that Toscanini
absolutely refused to conduct, ever!

I can just see Mascagni stopping and pointing to one guy - 'hey, you're
flat.'

Who's left to listen??

jm

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Bruchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 10:47 PM
Subject: [mascagni-interest] Mascagni Leads His Thousands


> 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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