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...list of titles, dates, and speakers is as follows: January 20, "Louise", "The Jewels of the Madonna", and "La Gioconda", R. Y. Robison; January 23, "Alda", "A Witch of Salem", and "Romeo and Juliet", Professor Spalding; January 26, "Tannhauser", "Sappho", and Samson et Dalila", W. S. Smith; January 30, "Carmen", "Lohengrin", and "Tosca", Stuart Mason; February 2, "Martha", "Rigoletto", and "La Traviata", R. C. Robinson...
This year it rose upon Frances Alda, Beniamino Gigli, Giuseppe de Luca, Adam Didur, upon dancer a la Russe Adolph Bolm. In former years it has risen upon Caruso, Ruffo, Martinelli, Galli-Curci, upon famed and glorious chanteur a la Russe Chaliapin...
Tonight's program wil be as follows: 1. March. "Cruiser Harvard" Strube 2. Overture to "Egmont" Beethoven 3. Fantasia, "Alda" Verdi 4. College Songs Intermission 5. Baechanale from "Tannhauser" Wagner 6. Marche Miniature Tchaikovsky 7. Ave Maria Schuber-Wilhelmj (solo violin. Harp. Organ and strings.) 8. Fourteenth Hungarian Rhapsody Liszi 9. Selection, "Rose-Marie" Frimi-Stothart 10. Waltz, "Tros Jolie" Waldteufel 11. American Fantasy Berbert
...Subscriber Tyrrell is employed by the Victor Talking Machine Co. The item in question described how the Company had discontinued sponsoring radio concerts by Lucrezia Bori, John McCormack, Frances Alda, etc., had replaced these famed artists on their concert programs with such names as Rudy Wiedoeft, Billy Murray, Hank Burr...
...composed so much that writing music was no longer an effort, and frequently as he wrote, he said, he was convulsed with laughter. The score is easy, melodious, lighthearted, reminiscent of Wagner iu mannerism rather than in poetry. Miss Bori was Mistress Ford; Tenor Gigli, Master Fenton; Mme. Alda, Nannette. All did well, But the critics, as they hailed their frost-bitten taxi-men and drove home, were replacing their familiar bromides with other phrases: "A scene quite without precedent" (The New York Times) ; "A relatively obscure singer who walked away with the chief honors" (The New York Herald-Tribune...