Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Wear and damage to book see images. Pages and plates are good.. Year 1946. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> No other lyrical theatre in the world has been granted such fortune nor such a power of emanating the vital vibrations of art as the one of which in the following pages the glorious story is told. It is a story beginning on a candle-lit dawn on the 3rd August 1778 and momen-tarily interrupted by the flames of fire on the 16th August 1943. The admirably conceived architecture of Piermarini seems to spring from magic foundations that neither events nor the years can shake. It has therefore been possible after wreck and ruin and grievous losses to plan the reconstruction of the partially destroyed building; to see this recon-struction accomplished and to continue the glorious story which has been interrupted. In the destiny of La Scala there is something eternal which was touched neither by the crisis through which the nation has just passed nor by the destruction on that terrible morning of 1943. La Scala is once more on the ascendant finding in the indestructible Italian genius the very reason for its existence. Music is a gift that Milan and Italy can make to the peace and the hope of the world because music such as Dante heard among the re-volving stars such as Shakespeare more earthily called “the food of love” is ever the most universal of languages. Moved by this echo bound together by the common need to resurrect its fabric a group of generous and passionate friends from every land rallied around La Scala and has restored its pulsatin life. To them this volume is dedicated with gratitude and is offered in a spirit of faith. (OS)