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Satchel Paige: a hero for the Jews too.(OPINIONS)(Satchel Paige)
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Like most Jews, I grew up seeing a Jewish angle in everything--but was there really anything Jewish about Negro Leagues strikeout king Leroy "Satchel" Paige?
I began to wonder a week ago, as I prepared for two presentations to Jewish audiences on my new biography of Paige. It was in middle of the first talk, to the Temple Isaiah Brotherhood in Lexington, that I realized just how heimish Satchel's story is.
For starters there were all the Jews who figured so prominently in Satchel's record-setting career. Al Rosen played alongside him in Cleveland when ...
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Leoncavallo: Life and Works.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; Leoncavallo: Life and Works. By Konrad Dryden...Dryden has now provided a study of Ruggiero Leoncavallo's life and works. With relatively little information about Leoncavallo readily accessible, Dryden had to...
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Leoncavallo's La Boheme
Magazine article from: Musical Opinion
; Pietro Mascagni and Ruggiero Leoncavallo share a good deal more than the...injudicious in his political leanings. Leoncavallo secured a commission from Kaiser...indiscretions in his later years. Leoncavallo was unluckier in life than Mascagni...
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Leoncavallo; life and works.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; 9780810858800 Leoncavallo; life and works. Dryden, Konrad...as the composer of Pagliacci, Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919) created many other...untangle and organize the facts of Leoncavallo's life while offering a relatively...
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CLEF'S NOTES.
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...concert, with 15-thousand witnesses who had not been warned of this. DEATH OF LEONCAVALLO Ruggiero Leoncavallo died on this day in 1919 at the age of 61. Leoncavallo was a one-hit composer. His brief but gripping ``Pagliacci'' is regularly...
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VIRGINIA OPERA RETURNS REALISM TO CLASSIC ``I PAGLIACCI''.(DAILY BREAK)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...CRAIG SHAPIRO, STAFF WRITER RUGGIERO LEONCAVALLO found the inspiration for his...jealous actor murdered his wife. Leoncavallo's father was the judge at...Caesar'' is a good example. Leoncavallo, though, presented his drama...
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Opera: The Boheme no one knows - and now we know why LA BOHEME COLISEUM LONDON
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...has done the right thing by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, should agents start panicking...Mimi playing second fiddle to Leoncavallo's Musetta, or their hot...better placed to appreciate the Leoncavallo now? Put it this way, Leoncavallo...
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A clown with murder on his hands
Newspaper article from: The Malay Mail
; Ruggiero Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci featuring Franco Corelli, Lucine Amara, Tito...needed (in last week's Dunces with Classics), two years later Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919) came up with his own pot boiler - I Pagliacci...
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Tales of carnage among the knaves.(ARTS & CULTURE)(OPERA)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...Cavalleria Rusticana" and Ruggiero Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci." Having...Cavalleria Rusticana" and Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci" WHERE...Virginia Opera performance of Ruggiero Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci," part...
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Laughter, tears/ Opera Theatre of the Rockies offers two views of death
Newspaper article from: The Gazette
; ...family scheming to change a relative's will. Ruggiero Leoncavallo took a tragic take on it in "Pagliacci," a tale...says conductor Thomas Cockrell. Most sources say Ruggiero Leoncavallo's only successful opera was inspired by a true...
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A clowning achievement
Newspaper article from: Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
; ...supertitles. People will hear Ruggiero Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci" ("The...the late 19th century, it is Leoncavallo's one claim to fame. (Nine...wrote aren't staged today.) Leoncavallo also wrote the libretto, which...
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