Word: bassos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night in June, 1928, a tall, ministerial figure strode upon the national scene and introduced himself in prodigious basso tones as follows: "If anyone has- any difficulty-in hearing me-in the remotest cor-rners of this hall-do not bla-ame it on Calif-o-ornia-but bla-ame it on Ka-ansas City!" It was great-voiced John L. McNab, San Francisco lawyer, placing his good friend, Herbert Clark Hoover, in nomination for the Presidency of the U. S. Then John L. McNab retired from the national scene...
...Berlin, Michael Bohnen, most currently famed Wagnerian basso, announced that he was "sick and tired" of opera, said the public is tired of it too. He, who has rarely sung twice with the same makeup, is tired of the beards of Hans Sachs, Wotan, Hagen, King Mark. He has signed a contract to make sound-cinemas, believes that "everyone will soon be running to the cinema to take their music in this new form." In Chicago Louis Eckstein wrote a check for $103,458.50, half the deficit of the Ravinia Opera so that an ardently enthusiastic Chicago public might continue...
Sued for Separate Maintenance. Michael Franz Bohnen, Metropolitan Opera Company Basso; by Mary Lewis, blonde and sometimes beautiful soprano; in Los Angeles. Married in 1927 by Mayor Walker, dramatic demonstrations of love gave Mr. Bohnen and Miss Lewis the reputation of being an ideal couple. Last week Miss Lewis charged that: In Manhattan Mr. Bohnen tried to make her leap from a window; in Paris he dragged her around by the hair; in Berlin he banged her head against a door until the hinges broke; in Los Angeles he slammed her against a wall. After a settlement had been made...
Other new voices will be: Elisabeth Ohms, Dutch dramatic soprano, with a reputation won at the Munich and Covent Garden Operas; Antoine Trantoul, French tenor of the Paris Opera and Opera Comique; Alfredo Gandolfi, baritone, favorite interpreter in his native Italy of such roles as Don Giovanni; Tancredo Pasero, basso, of European and South American fame. Josef Rosenstock, conductor, will be imported from Wiesbaden to replace Artur Bodanzky; Ernst Lert, stage director of La Scala at Milan, to replace Samuel Thewman...
...unspeakable satisfaction." Condescendingly he added: "If the people are ever persuaded that the original is better than my version, they will put this aside and perform Boris from the original score." The Rimsky version became a model for opera houses of the world and the medium for Basso Chaliapin's incomparable Tsar. Then, last year. Professor Paul Lamm, working under the music section of the Russian State Publishing Department at Moscow, published a version "in accordance with the autographed manuscripts, including hitherto unpublished scenes, episodes, fragments, and variants"-the original Boris. In this form it was produced...