Linz American High School - Danubian Yearbook (Linz, Austria)

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The most famous Italian musician of this part of Italy is Giacomo Puccini. Cur section of the yearbook is dedicated to his immortal melodies. Giacomo Puccini was an Italian com- poser. His works include some of the most popular of all operas. He was born at Lucca, Italy, on De- cember 2, 1858, into a family of musi- cians. In 1880 he entered the Milan Con- servatory and studied composition. In 1893 Puccini,s MANON LES- CAUT was produced. It won immediate success. LA BOI-IEME, the most lovable of all his operas, which followed in 1896, was considered a still greater triumph. LA TGSCA, MADAME BUTTERFLY and GIRL OF TI-IE GOLDEN WEST, pro- duced between 1000 and 1910, showed Giacomo Puccini 185851924 new sides of Puccini's ability. In 1926, his last opera, TURANDOT, was sung for the first time at Milan, Italy, two years after Puccini's death. Franco Alfano had completed the writing of this opera. Puccini had a sense of the theatre unsurpassed even by Verdi, and no man has ever known howto translate a theatrical situation into music with so few rapid, vivid strokes. Perhaps the best measure of his outstanding qualities is that since his death nobody has succeeded in writing an opera that commands universal allegiance. Puccinf: home in Torre del Lago, a small town near Pisa, Italy 145 IU

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Our school is located just out- side the village of Salviano, near Leghorn, Italy. It is surrounded by fields of Wheat, groves of olive and fruit trees and vineyards. From our classroom windows we are able to see the blue Medi- terranean on one side and rolling hills covered with cypress trees on the other. Near the villa one sees teams of White oxen plowing the fields and women Washing clothes at an old Well. Villa La Leecia is over Q00 years old and was once a convent. With best Regards to the Class of 1954,' COLONEL J. L. PERSON COMMANDING OFFICER LEGHORN LEGHORN AMERICAN SCHOOL VILLA LA LECCIA Our hand-carved front door is indeed a Work of art. It was brought lmere from the island of Cyprus many years ago. We are enjoying our year in the Tuscan bills. I

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ADMINISTRATION AND MILITARY PERSONNEL ist Lt. Alonzo S. Palmer Mrs. Virginia W. Richards Capt. Alice Wenck School Officer Principal School Officer A Laura Ryan SFC Ralph Zieca SFC Walter Overton Administrative Aide Administrative NCO Mess Sergeant SFC William Swan PFC Ralph McHargue Pvt. joseph Barclay Supply Sergeant Transportation NCO Clerk, General 146