Changes
Recent additions, translations, and archival updates to Mascagni.org
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- Restored all 2007–2009 posts from The Mascagni.org Blog to the News Archive — including announcements for the U.S. première of Il piccolo Marat, newly surfaced photographs of Mascagni rehearsing Aida and at the piano, a Chocolat Guérin-Boutron collector card, and recording and performance dispatches.
- Expanded the work pages — including songs such as Risveglio and M’ama… non m’ama, piano pieces such as Un pensiero a San Francisco, sacred works, and operas — with song texts and synopses, audio excerpts, recordings, publisher notes, and links to original scores and articles.
- Revised and expanded the Biography of Pietro Mascagni, organized by period with archival portraits and links to works, recordings, and historical articles.
- Completed the Mascagni in San Francisco (1903) special feature and published six February 1903 San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle articles with original newspaper sketches and clippings.
- Completed the English translation of Pietro Mascagni’s January 1914 La Lettura essay, How Parisina was Born, paired with a proofread edition of the original Italian article and high-resolution magazine scans.
- Reconstructed and proofread Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti’s March 1932 La Lettura memoir, Mascagni prima della « Cavalleria », from the original scans.
- Relaunched Mascagni.org as a modernized static archive with Deep Zoom viewers for original scores and documents, interactive filterable catalogs across works, libretti, musical scores, recordings, and bibliography, native HTML5 audio excerpts and 1935 Nerone film footage, and instant full-text search.
- The original Mascagni.org website had gone offline by this date.
- Last known date the original Mascagni.org website was online without errors.
Historical Update Log (1999–2006)
Updates from Mascagni.org’s original publication era are preserved separately in Historical Site Changes (1999–2006) → alongside the News Archive (1999–2009) →