Word: arditi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marcia Reale ItalianaGabetti *Ballet Suite from, "Aida" Verdi *Serenade Toscelli *Fantasia, "Pagliacci" Leoncavallo *Overture to "William Tell" Rossini *Aria, "Che gelida manina," from "La Boheme" Puceini Solist: Francesco Albanese, Tenor Rhapsody, "Italia" Casella *Ballet of the Hours from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli *Waltz, "H Bacio" Arditi Dance of the Camorrists from "The Jewels of the Madonna" Wolf-Ferrari Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
Last week in Manhattan a homely, dumpy, indomitable old lady marched on the stage in S. L. ("Roxy") Rothafel's huge cinema theatre, grinned a wide grin, then sang in a voice which was still great "Danny Boy," Arditi's "Bolero" and Brahms' "Cradle Song." The old lady was 69 and a great-grandmother but she repeated her vaudeville turn four times a day on seven successive days with an added appearance on Saturday and Sunday. She was, of course, Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink who for four years past has been saying farewell to her public...