(Section E)
Led by Laurance Turner
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was born at Florence in 1895 and studied under the famous Italian composer Ildebrando Pizzetti. He has composed a considerable amount of music, chiefly choral and vocal. Apart from numerous settings of Shakespeare's works, Castelnuovo-Tedesco has written five overtures inspired by The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Julizis Ccesar , and A Winter's Tale. Of these, however, The Taming of the Shrew is the only one that is known to English listeners, but it is one that is now quite frequently broadcast.