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Last week in Manhattan, newspapers, billboards flaunted an advertisement: The World's Greatest Tenor would give a concert. The billboards carried pictures of a round-faced Italian with small, black eyes like pants buttons-a picture of Beniamino Gigli. He would sing, so he announced, favorite arias and "there...
And so it was. She sang arias from the third and fourth acts of La Bohème, the balcony scene from Romeo et Juliette to the Romeo of Charles Hackett, U. S. tenor, the final scene from Otello. She died once as Mimi, again as Desdemona. Her Britannic Majesty...
Gathered tightly in the pews and galleries of a Dutch church in thrifty eastern Pennsylvania, a group of disciples harkened steadfastly - not disciples of steel nor of any god, but of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician immortal. Musingly reminiscent of medieval Leipzic with Bach playing out his enrapturing arias to the...
The succeeding series of operatic Italian arias presented new opportunities for display of interpretation and technique. Indeed, had M. Marcoux not possessed a delightful surety of tone combined with extreme simplicity of manner, the widely varied program might have been colored with a suggestion of braveura
Arias, songs, melodies, tunes were not to be found in this world premiere; they belong to the age of Caruso. To II Pagliacci were left the Lombardy folk-dances of simple peasants and villagers; A Light from St. Agnes offered a bunnyhug done by small town riff raff.