Word: bassos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage of the Manhattan was the scene also of the first appearance in the U. S., this season, of Feodor Chaliapin, incomparable Russian basso. He brought with him all his mannerisms, smiled irresistibly on his audience, wielded his lorgnette (with a gold handle) and his handkerchief and sang with dramatic power and genius which has never been equaled...
Engaged. Beatrice Fairfax (Miss Lilian Lauferty) to James Wolf, basso in the Metropolitan Opera Company. For ten years, Miss Fairfax has, in her syndicated writings, given advice and publicity to lovelorn lads and lassies of all ages...
Luigi Golinelli, giant white-haired basso, whose locks are snowier than the fleeces of Sharon, whose voice could shake the walls of Gaza; Spartaco Morgia, dramatic tenor, with barrel chest and amber voice - a man like a hogshead of honey; Attilio Boschi, young baritone, who, it is declared, is destined to be "the second Scandiani"; the Rev. Antonio Grimaldi, basso at the Sistine Chapel for 16 years, a famed authority on ecclesiastical music; Eugenio Andriselli, adult male soprano and assistant organist at St. Peter's. In all, there are twelve singers. Their programs will include selections from -the religious...
...Hansa (Hamburg-American) ?Prof. Franz Boas, famed anthropologist-explorer; Professor Alexander Marx, famed Jewish educator; Carl Schlegel, Metropolitan Opera basso...
...likely that Fyodor Chaliapin, famed Russian basso, Metropolitan star of the first magnitude, will not appear as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra next season. Why not ? Because Serge Koussevitzky, the great Russian conductor, will lead the Bostonians...