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Jupiter National Plots a New Course
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The long metamorphosis of Jupiter National Inc. of Rockville
from a venture capital investment company to an industrial company
continues. Jupiter will take another major step in that direction
at its annual stockholder's meeting Friday at the American Stock
Exchange in New York.
Shareholders will be asked to vote on a proposal allowing
Jupiter to give up its status as a business development company
under the Investment Company Act of 1940. A business development
company is, in effect, a closed-end investment company that invests
in small, developing and sometimes financially troubled ...
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Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage and Music in the Life of Atto Melani
Magazine article from: Opera News
; Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage and Music in...repeatedly through the lens of his subject, castrato Atto Melani. Atto's is a singular...Essential to an understanding of the castrato's life is the way in which seventeenth...
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The last castrato
Magazine article from: New Statesman
; The last castrato Jonathan Keates Moreschi: the Angel...Nicholas Clapton Haus, 265pp. 16.99 The castrato craze was one of the most bizarre phenomena...biographical record, if only because the castrato's life, led almost exclusively within...
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Orchestration ... or castration? The controversial decision to uncover the remains of the famous 18th-century castrato Farinelli in Bologna may or may not prove insightful for music historians ... while an exhibition on castrati in London illuminates this exclusive profession for the wider public.(FRONTLINE)(Biography)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...THIS YEAR, the remains of the legendary castrato Farinelli (Carlo Broschi 1705-82...sturdy man. The bones of the great castrato are to be examined further to discover...heroic lead would usually be written for a castrato singer. When such operas are performed...
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`Farinelli' Gives Voice to Another Era // Technology Puts Castrato on Film
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...Pavarotti C. Farinelli, the great Italian castrato of the 18th century. The answer, you...simply do not exist anymore. The last castrato, Alessandro Moreschi, a soloist with...soprano) plus one soprano would equal the castrato range. They recorded the soundtrack...
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The castrato's castration.
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
; ...one might think that the voice of the castrato caused a scandal in the breeches of his...Two decades before the appearance of a castrato (Nicolo Grimaldi, called Nicolini...presence to a cultural elite. Presenting a castrato, Pepys performed his membership in the...
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CARESTINI: THE STORY OF A CASTRATO
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...Jaroussky "CARESTINI: THE STORY OF A CASTRATO" Arias by Capelli, Gluck, Graun...the same comparison; fortunately, the castrato is extinct, making the countertenor...falsetto can't replicate the sound of a castrato singing comfortably within his (for...
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The Arts: A cut above the rest Portraying the greatest castrato ever on film is one thing. Doing so live on stage is quite another - even with the help of Richard O'Brien. By Michael Church
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...the voice and person of the greatest castrato who ever lived. Farinelli - born Carlo...the high ones. But in Farinelli the Castrato, the bloody operation and subsequent...interesting fact that the most celebrated castrato in the world spent the best years of...
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SUSANNA, THE CAPTAIN & THE CASTRATO: SCENES FROM THE BURNEY SALON, 1779-80
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...love SUSANNA, THE CAPTAIN & THE CASTRATO: SCENES FROM THE BURNEY SALON, 1779...Susanna met Gasparo Pacchierotti, a castrato who had succeeded Farinelli as the most...In Susanna, the Captain & the Castrato, Linda Kelly (who has previously written...
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Susanna and the singing eunuch Paula Byrne on the friendship between Fanny Burney's sister and a celebrated castrato
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; Susanna, the Captain and the Castrato by Linda Kelly Starhaven, pounds 9 pbk, 140 pp WHEN THE Italian castrato singer Gasparo Pacchierotti met Susanna...clear to a modern reader the sound of the castrato voice, and its importance to the Opera...
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Arts: The birth of a notion Your patron's a slavedriver, the air is killing your wife and your castrato's gone missing. What do you do? If you're Monteverdi, you define a new art form and create its first masterpiece, Orfeo.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...musical harem". In the event, a castrato priest from the cathedral choir was drafted...role of La Musica. The progress of the castrato from Tuscany to Mantua was the subject...words for that part as well. Why had the castrato not yet arrived, demanded Francesco...
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