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...critic and not so nice like every one else. . . . Immagine, this said that I ... am lower of ... Julia Culp!" From Havana he wrote: "... A newspaper say a good thinks and in the same day say bad thinks." His love letters might have been a literal translation of an aria: "My Big Piece of Gold," he wrote from tour, "you make me feel so emotionated that I start to cry again! I reed you and skratce my head because it seams that all my breans . . . is full of you." Of five-month-old Gloria: "Then she look like me? I dont...
...deplored by unrealistic opera-lovers, the claque is almost as indispensable to a great opera house like the Metropolitan as a well-trained chorus or orchestra. For the paid applauders know precisely when to do their stuff-and thus set the audience a well-mannered example. When a booming aria comes to a thrilling finish, and is then succeeded by a delicate orchestral postscript or a bit of crucial drama, a well-trained claque can hold the audience in check until the proper moment, then lead it into a crescendo of enthusiasm...
Among vocal connoisseurs Miliza Korjus' silvery, agile recordings of such challenging arias as the Bell Song from Lakmé and the Queen of the Night Aria from The Magic Flute had roused admiration and curiosity. But until this week, almost none of her phonographic fans had heard her in the flesh. When she walked on Carnegie Hall's stage and launched into Lucia's Mad Scene and an assortment of Mozart and Verdi fireworks, they lent attentive ears. Soprano Korjus flatted on a couple of high notes, sang a phrase or two off pitch. Her high...
...Government insisted on a Scotland Yard convoy wherever he went; pretty young society girls stood guard with rifles outside his hideaway on the English seacoast. At Manhattan's gilded Metropolitan Opera House, audiences have been known to rise to salute his entrance in the midst of an aria. Marianoff tells of overhearing a mother say to her small son in a city street: "There is Albert Einstein. Don't ever forget that you have seen...
...pastel waltzes of the Strauss operetta Die Fledermaus† were interrupted to report: "Hostile aircraft have turned westward." The operetta resumed with the aria, What Happiness to Forget What Cannot Be Changed...