Thomas Campanella
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“There were two orchestras with two hundred musicians in all—one onstage and a larger one on the board track below conducted by Giorgio Polacca, who inherited the Metropolitan Opera’s baton from Arturo Toscanini. A battalion of 250 Boy Scout ushers arrived late to find a near riot in the grandstands, as patrons scrambled for oversold seats. The triumphal march scene at the end of the second act was the most spectacular ever staged—with five hundred soldiers from the New York State Militia, sixteen horses, four camels, a pair of oxen, and Hattie the elephant from”
― Brooklyn: The Once and Future City
― Brooklyn: The Once and Future City
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