DEBASEMENT OF MUSIC
OPERATIC AIRS ADAPTED TO FOXTROTS. PUCCINI'S CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. Press Association —By Telegraph— Copyright ROME, October 18. On the grounds that the themes of his operas are being put to artistically and morally degrading usas, Signor Puccini ba- commenced an action against the pnb-lishe.-s. tho Rieordi Company. Puccini claims that, ids tlicmes have been plagiarised for American fox-trot music, and ho stale? that the principal airs in “I,a Tosca” and '‘Madame Butterfly” have been so used. He demands payment on the receipts of ail sales, and an indemnity for moral and artistic damages.—Router,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18999, 23 October 1923, Page 5
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96DEBASEMENT OF MUSIC Otago Daily Times, Issue 18999, 23 October 1923, Page 5
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