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He received his own training at San Francisco Conservatory and Carnegie Mellon, studied composition with Vincent Persichetti and piano with William Masselos and the great Leon Fleisher — who, in 1964, lost use of his right hand as a result of focal dystonia, a rare neurological condition that can cause involuntary contractions and “abnormal postures.”

But one former Red Brigades member, Paolo Persichetti, has cast doubt on the document's valuation, claiming that it is not the original, but rather a copy, of which hundreds exist in state archives.

A very brief history of the transition from ragtime to jazz — including pieces by Eubie Blake, Mary Lou Williams, James P. Johnson and Duke Ellington — is the climax of a program that also includes an aria from Gian Carlo Menotti’s popular opera “The Medium,” William Grant Still’s eloquent “Incantation and Dance” for oboe and piano, and works by Vincent Persichetti, Wolpe and Elliott Carter.

"I am here because David Sassoli represents good politics, the human face of Europe," said Rome resident Donatina Persichetti.

But with a cavernous memory and a zeal for efficiency that he had cultivated at the helm of radio shows like the “Jack Frost Melody Moments,” Ormandy could go from Albéniz to Yardumian, from his own, tellingly gaudy transcriptions of Bach and Handel to the works of American contemporaries, Philadelphians like Harl McDonald, Louis Gesensway and Vincent Persichetti among them.