April 16, 1924. The Little Italy neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. A boy was born, named Enrico Nicola Mancini. His parents, Quintiliano — known as Quinto — and Anna Mancini, had emigrated from the Abruzzo region of Italy. Quinto worked at the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company by day, and in his spare time played flute and piccolo in a local Italian immigrant band called the Sons of Italy. Anna kept the household. This father, and the sound of that flute, was where everything began. The boy would eventually Anglicize his name to Henry, ...
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