Emma Trentini News
singer (1878-1959)
- soprano
- United States of America
- opera singer, actor, stage actor, voice actor
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2015-04-23 04:19:13
In the cross-currents of history: An interview with musician and author Alberto Nones about the life and work of Italian composer Riccardo Zandonai.
[…] stage presentation in which I talk about the composer and an actress reads excerpts from my book. A major part of the presentation is devoted to my playing selections of Zandonai’s music on the piano. This show presents Zandonai’s life through his music, which also illuminates some of the more momentous aspects and events of the 20th century. As one example, in the show we present three pieces for choir — Inno degli Studenti Trentini (1901), Alla Patria (1915), and Requiem (1916) – which together resulted in Zandonai receiving a sentence for High Treason by the tribunal of Innsbruck in 1916. It helps us remember that the town of Rovereto, although ethnically Italian, was actually part of the Habsburg Empire (Austria-Hungary) for 100 years until the end of World War I. Zandonai — legally speaking an Austrian citizen – had committed the crime of writing ‘irredentist’ music. In the […]
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