Word: alvarez
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...Suggested to the composer by the act of one Isidoro Alvarez, owner of a dance hall near Toledo, Spain, who poured gasoline over the piano owned by a rival dance-hall keeper, set it afire, caused the whole building to burn to the ground, was arrested, jailed...
...Manhattan, the American League of Professional Women held a music forum luncheon last week. Two guests of honor were given the same topic: "What shall we do about jazz?" They were Dr. John Roach Straton, fundamentalist Baptist, and Marguerite d'Alvarez, Peruvian contralto. Dr. Straton rose first, bit off his words, said loudly, severely...
Drawled Mme. d'Alvarez pleasantly: "Jazz is my reason for living in New York City. I prefer to live in New York because here I can find the inspiration of good jazz music. New York is jazz incarnate. Its architecture, its business, its life-all sparkle to a syncopated measure. . . . An honest jazz tune is better than a sermon on prohibiting anything. . . . When I die I have only one request to make. I want music at my funeral, but no dirge or mournful laments. Play only one thing and let that number be George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody...
...What work of George Gershwin would Mme. d'Alvarez select for her funeral...
...since the Quake, he has not sung in Johnstown since the Flood, nor, until last week, had he sung in San Francisco since the Fire. His great voice boomed there last week; other famed singers tuned their notes-Tita Schipa, tenor from the Chicago Civic Opera; Marguerite d'Alvarez, Spanish contralto; Rosina Torri, from La Scala; Fernand Ansseau, Belgian. Fans, neckcloths, puffed and powdered melodies furbished once more the elegant infidelities of Manon Lescaitt; pompous swaddlings adorned the familiar French-Hebrew heroics of Samson et Dalila. The San Francisco Opera Company had begun its season...