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AVANTI 2442 NEWS Dear Brothers and Sisters,: Christmas, it seems, has lost its meaning. We become obsessed with decorations and gift- buying, putting aside the true beauty of the season. DECEMBER 2019 This is the time to concentrate on family, friends and the less fortunate. What better time to reach out to relatives and forgotten friends. A phone call (not e-mail), a donation to a children's charity, a home-made gift for a shut-in, yes, loving gestures that say I am here for you. [email protected] Giving of ones self is the greatest gift of all. A blessed Christmas to you and yours and a New Year filled with good-health and happiness. Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day 2019 Buon Natale e Buon Capodanno a tutti! Luisa Saturday, December 7th President th HOPE TO SEE YOU AT THE PARLOR HOUSE GRILL SUNDAY DECEMBER 15 Hanukkah 2019 begins Sunday, December 22 o at sunset (in 35 days) ends Monday, December 30 o at nightfall Angela U. and Madeline B. gave the Cultural Presentation talking to us all about their recent trips to Italy Lodge CSJ Liason, Grace, received an award for her work Thanks Rose for many photos of the luncheon I delivered the rest of the books. The back of my car was full. I had to get help to bring them in to the library!!! GIOVANNI BOTTESINI (December 22, 1821 – July 7, 1889) Giovanni Bottesini was an Italian Romantic composer, conductor, and a double bass virtuoso. Born in Crema, Lombardy, he was taught the rudiments of music by his father, an accomplished clarinetist and composer, at a young age and had played timpani in Crema with the Teatro Sociale before the age of eleven. He studied violin with Carlo Cogliati, At the Milan Conservatory, He prepared a successful audition for the double bass scholarship in a matter of weeks. At the conservatory, he studied with Luigi Rossi, to whom he would later dedicate his Tre grandi duetti per contrabasso. On leaving Milan, he spent some time in America and also occupied the position of principal double-bass in the Italian opera at Havana, where he later became director. Here his first opera, Cristoforo Colombo, was produced in 1847. In 1871 he conducted a season of Italian opera at the Lyceum theatre in London, during which his opera Ali Babà was produced, and he was chosen by Verdi to conduct the first performance of Aida, which took place at Cairo on 27 December 1871. Domenico Cimarosa, (born Dec. 17, 1749, Aversa, Kingdom of Naples—died Jan. 11, 1801, Venice), one of the principal Italian composers of comic operas. He was born of a poor family, and his parents, anxious to give him a good education, moved to Naples, where they sent him to a free school. Beginning in 1761 he studied for 11 years at the conservatory of Sta. Maria di Loreto. He began his career with the * COMIC OPERA , Le Stravaganze del conte, performed at the Teatro de’ Fiorentini at Naples in 1772. Its success was followed by that of L’Italiana in Londra (Rome, 1778), a work still performed in ITALY. *Comic opera, also called Light Opera, musical plays with light subject matter and happy endings. The dialogue is usually spoken, rather than sung. In addition to Operetta and musical comedy, types of comic opera include Italian Opera Buffa (which has sung dialogue) He lived mainly in Naples, and during its occupation by the French Republican troops in 1799, Cimarosa openly showed his republican sympathies, so that on the return of the Bourbons he was imprisoned. After being released, he left Naples in broken health. His death from an intestinal disorder led to the rumor of his having been poisoned by his enemies; a formal inquest proved the charge to be unfounded. Cimarosa was a prolific composer whose music abounds in fresh and never-failing melody. His numerous operas are remarkable for their apt characterizations and abundant comic life. He wrote many choral works, including the CANTATA Il maestro di cappella, a popular satire on contemporary operatic rehearsal methods. Among his instrumental works, which, like his operas, have been successfully revived, are many sparkling harpsichord sonatas and a concerto for two flutes. National Mutt Day encourages us to embrace, save and celebrate mixed breed dogs Desperately longing for a new home, millions of loving and healthy mixed breed dogs in shelters wait for someone to come and adopt them. National Mutt Day provides an excellent opportunity to find the perfect canine companion. Of course, shelters always welcome donations and volunteers. Dogs love walking, playing and being loved even if they haven’t found their forever home. Every moment they spend socializing increases their opportunity for adoption. NATIONAL POINSETTIA DAY – December 12 Each year on the 12th day of December, people across the United States recognize National Poinsettia Day. The poinsettia plant’s connection to the Christmas season dates back to 16th-century Mexico. Legend tells of a girl who worried she had no gift to celebrate Jesus’s birthday because she was too poor. An angel tells her to give any gift with love. The young girl gathered weeds from alongside the road and placed them in the manger. Miraculously the weeds bloomed into beautiful red stars. The poinsettia first came to the United States by way of Joel Roberts Poinsett, an American botanist and the first United States Minister to Mexico. In 1825, he sent cuttings home to Charleston, South Carolina. It wasn’t until the early 1920s when Paul Ecke, a second-generation farmer in California, discovered a grafting technique which caused the seedlings to branch, that the poinsettia started to take root in American culture. The family hawked their Christmas flower at roadside stands. Paul Ecke Jr. advanced the sales of the poinsettia through shipping and marketing. The House of Representatives in 2002 created Poinsettia Day to honor the father of the poinsettia industry, Paul Ecke. The date of December 12 marks the death of Joel Roberts Poinsett, the man responsible for bringing the plan to the United States. Autumn Decorations in our Homes I MADE THIS AUTUMN DECORATION FOR ROSE, AND SHE HUNG IT WITH THE CALENDAR FROM HER NIECE WHO LIVES IN ITALY. Angela The Feast of the Seven Fishes (Italian: Festa dei sette pesci), is an Italian-American celebration of Christmas Eve with dishes of fish and other seafood. Today, the meal typically consists of seven different seafood dishes. The tradition comes from Southern Italy, where it is known simply as The Vigil (La Vigilia). This celebration commemorates the wait, the Vigilia di Natale, for the midnight birth of the baby Jesus. We didn’t celebrate with the 7 fishes in my house, my mother did not like fish. Instead my father made homemade pizza. At midnight we ate and opened gifts. Now, we celebrate Christmas Eve at my daughters home, enjoy antipasto and we get to eat our first round of Christmas Cookies. Each of us opens a small gift and my grandson likes to read the Night Before Christmas to us. Our Fire Department takes Santa for a drive around the neighborhood on a firetruck, we go outside and wave and leave food for his reindeer. Of course, cookies are left for Santa. Everyone heads to bed early, so we can get an early start on Christmas morning. Do you celebrate Christmas Eve in a special way? Angela Donato You can search for your relatives who entered through ELLIS ISLAND Robert (Bob) William Montana (October 23, 1920 – January 4, 1975) was an American comic strip artist who created the original likenesses for central characters published by Archie Comics and in the newspaper strip Archie. He was born in Stockton, California to former Ziegfeld Follies girl, Roberta Pandolfini Montana and Ray Montana a top performer banjo player on the Keith vaudeville circuit. As a result, Bob Montana traveled extensively as a child. Montana started working for MLJ Comics (which would later be known as Archie Comics). He was asked to work up a high school style comic strip story, featuring Archie Andrews. The success of the Archie and friends story in MLJ Comics' Pep Comics (Dec. 1941) led MLJ to assign Montana to draw the first issue of Archie (Nov. 1942). Montana was soon drawing the Archie comic strip, doing both the daily and Sunday strip, which over the next 35 years ran in over 750 newspapers. He died of a heart attack on January 4, 1975, while cross-country skiing in Meredith, New Hampshire. CHARLES ANGELO SIRINGO (February 7, 1855 - October 18, 1928) Born on February 7, 1855, in Matagorda County, Texas to an Irish immigrant mother and an Italian immigrant father, An American lawman, detective, bounty hunter, agent for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Working for a number of Texas ranches over several years, he became a trail driver in 1876, accompanying a herd of 2,500 Longhorns over the Chisholm Trail from Austin to Kansas. He made a second trip in the spring of 1877, following the trail’s western branch. In 1884, he married and wrote his first book, “A Texas Cowboy”. In 1886, he was hired by the Pinkerton Agency. In the late 1890s, posing as “Charles L. Carter,” an alleged gunman on the run for murder, he infiltrated Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch. After the Wild Bunch committed the 1899 Wilcox Train Robbery in Wyoming, he was assigned to capture them. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid fled to Bolivia, where they were later allegedly killed by Bolivian soldiers during a robbery attempt.