Pergolesi in the Pentagon: Life at the Front Lines of the Cultural Cold War by John S. Bowman

Pergolesi in the Pentagon: Life at the Front Lines of the Cultural Cold War

John S. Bowman

244 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography memoir informative medium-paced

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Drafted into the US Army in 1954, John S. Bowman was assigned to Frankfurt, Germany, where with other young Americans he produced a comic opera by the 18th-century Italian composer, Pergolesi. Its success led the Army's Special Services to sponsor...

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