Word: auditioner
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Concerts are beginning to lose the careless informality of other days. Neither the performers nor the audience used to bother much about getting to them on time. It used to be long after the appointed hour before the conductor made his initial bow, and long after that before any appreciable...
" 'I should like an audition,' I replied. 'I am a contralto.'
"I was a girl just beginning a singing career," she says. "In Paris I heard that Mr. Hammerstein was in the city engaging artists for his New York opera house. I went to his hotel to see him and try to gain an audition. He was sitting in the lobby...
" 'Well, if you want, you can have an audition,' he growled.
"Several days later my agent told me that Mr. Hammerstein wanted me to come to an audition. I refused, but the agent insisted. I went, all upset, so upset that I sang very badly at the audition. I did not care. I was so angry that I was glad, as...