Word: aida
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bringing from far haunts rude, related delegations like the one which attended Marion Talley's debut. Marek Windheim was not in line for these honors : had he been a soprano even, he would still have been a Pole and the Poles are too remote for human interest stories. Aida Doninelli, a Central American diva, would be likewise unsatisfactory. Grace Divine and Pearl Besuner (a tobacconist's daughter), are, by a lamentable coincidence, citizens of the same city, Cincinnati. Both have recently won fellowships in Dresden and refused them for Metropolitan premieres whose sameness must in some measure darken...
...Colon, in Buenos Aires, glittered as if with a luminous frost. At 9 o'clock, when the curbs outside it were populated with chauffeurs, wrapped in long coats, music began in El Colon. Tullio Serafin raised his baton, the violins began a soft prelude and the curtain rose upon Aida, a scene of warm sands and tropical trees...
Last week when the season opened, Lauri-Volpi sang Rhadames in Aida. The smart citizens of Buenos Aires cheered the performance; one fat dealer in sheep's wool as he got into his Hispano-Suiza was heard to gurgle his approval in unquotable terms...
...following program will be given at the Pops concert in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock tonight: Entrance of the Gladiators Fucik Overture to "Mignon" Thomas Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmi Fantasia, "Aida" Verdi Ballet of the Hours from "Gloconda" Ponchielli The Lost Chord Sullivan (Trumpet solo: Georges Mager) Mississippi Suite Grofe a. Father of Waters b. Huckleberry Finn c. Old Creole Days d. Mardi Gras Selection, "Good News" De Sylva Waltz, "Jolly Fellows" Vollstedt American Patrol Meacham Stein Song
...Pierian Sodality Orchestra will give a varied program of classical and popular numbers at the Harvard Club of Boston, Sunday evening at 8.15 o'clock. The numbers to be presented are: "Triumph March" Beethoven "Egmont Overture" Beethoven "Fingal's Cave" Mendelssohn "March from 'Aida'" Verdi "Woodland Sketches" MacDowell "Rustle of Spring" Sinding "Narcissus" Nevin