Update: Jonas Salk said: If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end.
Attila (opera) Attila is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on the 1809 play Attila, KÃ¶nig der Hunnen (Attila, King of the Huns) by Zacharias Werner. The opera received its first performance at La Fenice in Venice on 17 March 1846.
In nineteen forty-two, the conductor Andre Kostelanetz asked Copland to write music about a great American, Abraham Lincoln. Copland wrote Lincoln Portrait to honor America's sixteenth president. Copland's music included parts of American folk songs and songs popular during the American Civil War.