He began writing songs when he was 7 years of age. If you can flash back to when we were 7 years of age. I know that maybe the Speaker was writing songs. but I wasnt. He wrote both the libretto and music for his first opera. "The Death of Pierrot." He was an immigrant. So we are not only talking about his life. we are talking about all of those immigrants who came here with nothing and made something that everybody was affected by in his life. He came to this country in 1928. And his first fulllength opera was "The Consul." which premiered in 1950.
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