ABSTRACT
An examination of maestro Prisco’s letters from 1908 to 1910 highlights three key events that demonstrate, on the brink of his fiftieth birthday, the success of his multi-process integration in America: his desire to change his name by adding an ‘M.’ to it; his sending a second self-portrait photo to Senator Di Marzo; and his daughters’ weddings. The birth of his first American grandchild is the final realisation of his integration as a family man and migrant. Finally, it highlights the important of Prisco’s participation in the Di Marzo family’s grieving processes in strengthening the emotional relationship between the musician and the Senator, until the sudden death of Donato Di Marzo himself in 1911.
