Word: aida
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week President Hoover telegraphed him congratulations on the dedication of the Institute. Secretary Mellon and his brother telegraphed him the promise of $30,000 for a research fellowship. Adolph Lewisohn, Manhattan banker, telegraphed another $30,000. Near Dr. and Mrs. Wilmer at the dedi cation ceremonies sat Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root Breckinridge, wife of Wilson's first Assistant Secretary of War. She raised the $4,000,000 which financed the Institute, because Dr. Wilmer saved her eyesight six years ago. Lacking the necessary millions herself, she coaxed Dr. Wilmers Negro office servant William to give...
...Lawn-mowing in Winnetka is a regular Martinelli summer occupation. It is good for the girth. Among the regular Martinelli outpourings will be Manon Lescaut, Samsonn et Dalila, Aida. Curly-haired Tenor Martinelli returned, not long ago, from his first-in-16-years visit to Italy. Near him in Winnetka will be versatile Tenor Edward Johnson...
...Pops Concert tonight in Symphony Hall, Alfredo Casella will conduct the orchestra of 80 Symphony Players in the following program: March from "Aida" Verdi Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg a. Morning Mood b. Aase's Death c. Anitra's Dance King's Grotto d. In the Troll Overture to "Tannhauser" Wagner "Espana," Rhapsody Chabrier "Pacific 2-3-4," Symphonicment Move Honegger "Italia," Rhapsody Casella Ballet of the Hours from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Infermezzo, "Cavalleria Rusticana" Maseagnt Marche Slave Tchaikovsky
...Chicago a pleasant Aida made her debut at Civic Opera, She was Soprano Hilda Burke, 24, of Baltimore, who had wanted to be a trained nurse but succumbed to parental objection, concentrated on singing as a substitute...
California takes its opera in concentrated doses, in early autumn, the San Francisco Opera Association first, then the Los Angeles Opera Association. The producing companies and the repertoires are essentially the same with Gaetano Merola director of both, and many of the same singers. Some 5,000 heard Aida in San Francisco's Dreamland Auditorium. Then came La Cena delle Beffe, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Turandot, L'Amore del Tre Re, Fedora, Andrea Chenier, Faust, Carmen, Cavalleri Rusticana and Pagliacci. Los Angeles has the same list without Aida and Fedora. There were many members of the Metropolitan Opera...