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Howard Jay Smith, "Meeting Mozart: A Novel Drawn From the Secret Diaries of Lorenzo Da Ponte" (Sager Group, 2020)
Today I talked to Howard Jay Smith about his new novel Meeting Mozart (The Sager Group, 2020). It’s 1946, and a young army intelligence officer is awakened early by a gruff priest who needs another tenor for his church service. But Corporal Jake Conegliano has been invited to see a performance of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, and his ride is leaving soon. The Abbe Luigi Hudal won’t take no for an answer, and threatens eternal damnation, until Jake says that he’s Jewish, but will be happy to sing in the choir the following week. The priest tells him that having a Jewish heathen in his church…
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