Word: accompanists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kirsten Flagstad, 59, who interrupted her retirement to give a pair of concerts in Carnegie Hall and proved that she was still the greatest Wagnerian soprano of all. With the Symphony of the Air (formerly the NBC Symphony) under the direction of her longtime Accompanist Edwin Mc-Arthur, she sang four Wagner selections. Her voice had undeniably lost some of its freshness, but none of its security. She sang meltingly in two arias from Die Walkiire and the five Wesendonck Songs, with eloquence and sensuousness in the Love Death from Tristan. There was ringing power (even on her high...
Through the Uppercrust. Even before she ran away from home with a troupe of traveling Shakespearean players, Elsa met (through her father's theatrical friends) the great Caruso and a couple of Jacks: London and Barrymore. She traveled to Europe and Africa as the piano accompanist of a vaudeville singer, and soon she had cut her way through the upper crust of three continents. Included among the names she drops: Actress Elsie Jams' mother, a thrifty Ohio housewife intent on buying her way into British society ("John dear, fetch a 75? Corona for the noble lord"), Mrs. O.H.P...
...arranger, Jack Halloran, suggested that she start singing on the eighth bar of I Believe. Said Mahalia: "Jack, don't talk to me about bars. What word do you want me to start on?" When she is learning a song, Mahalia listens intently as her longtime accompanist, Mildred Falls, plays the piece over and over. Then Mahalia works until she feels both the words and the music. She never sings the same song twice in the same way. Even when using an identical arrangement for I Believe, Mahalia sang one version in two minutes, 40 seconds and another...
...celebration. Vaughan Williams just happened to have a tuba concerto * lying around, agreed to have it played if the orchestra had a tubaman up to the job. Would Catelinet like to audition for Vaughan Williams? Into London's frisky traffic went Catelinet, his tuba and his piano accompanist...
Then in 1935 Davison chose his longtime assistant, G. Wallace Woodworth '24, to succeed him as the Club's conductor. The two had met in 1920 when Woodworth, a freshman, tried out unsuccessfully as a singer for the Club and was taken on as an accompanist. The retirement, however, by no means ended Davison's musical career...