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Fox TV Series Debut Focuses On 'Strange Inheritance' In Hastings-On-Hudson Fox TV Series Debut Focuses On 'Strange Inheritance' In Hastings-On-Hudson
Fox TV Series Debut Focuses On 'Strange Inheritance' In Hastings-On-Hudson On Monday night, Feb. 5, Jamie Colby heads to Hastings-on-Hudson, to meet Marlene Piturro, an opera lover who inherited a musical treasure from her percussionist husband.  In the mid-1970s, Marlene’s husband, Howard Van Hyning, takes a summer assignment performing in the opera “Turandot.” Despite Howard’s vast collection of percussion instruments, he does not have precisely the right gongs to perform “Turandot.” He gets a tip that the Italian composer, Giacomo Puccini’s custom-made gongs – the very ones he had specially crafted for Turandot – are sitting in a small costume shop in the New Yo…

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