Enrico Caruso
Enrico Caruso was born February 25, 1873 in Naples, Italy. He was one of the most talented and admired Italian operatic tenors in the early 20th century. He was also one of the first people to have his music recorded using a gramophone. He recorded 260 recordings and made millions of dollars from the sale of is 78rpm records.
Caruso was baptized in the Church of San Giovanni e Paolo on February 26, 1873. At the age of ten he started working in a factory with his father in Naples, Italy. Enrico was the youngest of 21 (so,me sources say 18) children. Only three of the his siblings survived infancy. He was encouraged by his mother and his step-mother and a local parish priest to make singing his career. He later joined his church
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Enrico Caruso influenced many tenors after him. Mario Lanza was acknowledged in the tenor category . he played Caruso on screen reminding the audience of the talents of Caruso. Al Jolson, the jazz singer also was influenced by Enrico. The two men planned to do a duet together and many people thought it would be impossible for them to combine the two genres of music together. They beat the odds and had a great performance. Both men influenced each other.
Enrico used home made remedies for his vocal cords like garlic and ether spray. Critics thought that his acting was better than his vocal style coarser. Other thought that “ his voice is purely a tenor in its quality of high range and large power”. Another critic stated “ Mr. Caruso appeared last evening capable of intelligence and of passion in both his singing and his acting, and gave reason to believe in his value as an acquisition to the company”.
Enrico was in San Francisco on April 18, 1906, the day the world’s worst earthquake occurred. He vowed never to return to that city and he never did. Caruso created the famous role of Dick Johnson in the world’s premiere of Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West”. He also created tenor parts in Adriana Lecouvreur “
Sinatra’s early years were spent in Hoboken, dreaming of a “better life';. Francis A. Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey. Being members of the Catholic faith, he was not baptized until April 2, 1916. He faced adversity as soon as he was born, nearly dying of birth complications that left him scarred for three months after he was conceived. As, a result of this, he was often bantered by members of his class and children of his neighborhood, who called ...
Michelangelo was born in Caprese, Italy on March 6th 1475. His family was politically prominent as his family had large land property. His father was a banker and was looking to his son to engage in his businesses. As a young boy, he has ambitions of becoming a sculptor, but his father was very discouraging of this. He wanted his son to live up to the family name and take up his father’s businesses. Michelangelo became friends with Francesco Granacci, who introduced him to Domenico Ghirlandio(biography.com). Michelangelo and his father got into a series of arguments until eventually they arranged for him to study under Ghirlandaio at the age of thirteen. Ghirlandaio watched Michelangelo work and recognized his talent for the art and recommended him into an apprenticeship for the Medici family palace studio after only one year of at the workshop. The Medici’s were very rich from making the finest cloths. Lorenzo, which was one of the most famous of the family had a soft side for art and is credited for helping the Italian Renaissance become a time of illustrious art and sculpting. At ...
Antonio Stradivari was born in Bergamo Italy 1644. In his youth he lived in Cremona Italy, where he became the apprentice of Nicolo Amati. He had married twice, once in 1667 with a woman named Francesca, whom he had six children with. His first son only lived for six days. The rest later became priests, and apprentices of their father. Francesca then died in 1698. Soon after Stradivari remarried in 1699 to a woman named Antonia. Antonia and Stradivari had four children. Two of which had died. Stradivari bought a home in Piazza Roma; this is where Stradivari carried out his work as a luthier, with his sons at his side as apprentices. In 1737 Stradivari had died and was buried in the church of San Domenico in Cremona where his family had originated.
Johann Adolph Hasse was born on March 25th, 1699, in Bergedorf, Germany. His family consisted of German church musicians and Hasse received his first musical education from his father. His great grandfather, Peter Hasse, had once held the position of organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck and had gained some attention as a composer. Johann's grandfather, father, and brother, each held the position of organist at Bergedorf. Due to family connections, his father was administrator of a local charity intended for the poor of Bergedorf and it was this same charity which enabled fifteen-year-old Hasse to travel to Hamburg to study voice between 1714 and 1717. As a gifted tenor, he chose a theatrical career and in 1718, came under the operatic instruction of Richard Keiser in the Hamburg Opera.
Michelangelo’s family moved to Florence, Italy a month after his birth. Although his family was not wealthy, Michelangelo went to school in 1482. When Michelangelo started to excel in the arts his dad was not happy. He wanted Michelangelo to become a government or military figure. He beat Michelangelo to steer him away from the arts. Finally, at age 13 Michelangelo’s dad gave up and let Michelangelo start an apprenticeship under Domenico Ghirlando to learn (McNeese 11-21).
I can say with absolute certainty that I have always been intrigued by and totally enamored with cultures that were different from my own. I believe this is because I fancy myself to be an imaginative dreamer that has always wished for changes to take place in the world so that it may one day become the way it was supposed to be when the creator of the universe imagined it all those centuries ago.
Sandro Botticelli, born Alessandro Mariano Filipepi, was the son of a tanner. He was born in Florence around 1445 and showed a talent for painting at a very early age. Botticelli was first apprenticed under a goldsmith named Sandro, from whom it is believed he derived his nickname. At the age of sixteen, he served an apprenticeship with the painter Fra Filippo Lippi (Durant, 1953). From Lippi he learned to create the effect of transparency, to draw outlines, and to give his pictures fluidity and harmony. He also worked with painter and engraver Antonio del Pollaiuolo, from whom he gained his sense of line.
Alphonso Caponi was born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York. Capone was born into a large family, one of seven kids. Capone was your average kid back then. Capone attended grade school till sixth grade, at that point he had beaten
Enrico Caruso arrived in his cozy fifth floor room at the Palace Hotel after performing Carmen at San Francisco’s Grand Opera House the night before the earthquake. He says he “went to bed feeling very contented”, although he woke up feeling a very different way. “But what an awakening! … on the Wednesday morning early I wake up about 5...
Opera, a popular art from Italy, was popular with the immigrants as well, and unlike the music halls, it generated an appeal far beyond the Italian community. From the 1880's, when the Metropolitan Opera House opened in New York with Cleofante Capanini as it's first conductor and director, until today, the Italians have been prominent in opera in the United States and else where in the world.
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Antonio Vivaldi was born on March 4th, 1678, in Venice, Italy, and died on July 28, 1741, in Vienna, Austria. His father, a barber and a talented violinist at Saint Mark's Cathedral himself, had helped him in trying a career in music and made him enter the Cappella di San Marco orchestra, where he was an appreciated violinist.
...from opera, Italian folk music, Italian-American, Italian techno, to instrumental classical. As with all music influenced by immigration, Italian music will continue to expand, evolve, and remain a prominent part of American culture.
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