Word: bassos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annoyance danced on his brow; he found the time too slow for his impetuous taste. Over the bobbing heads of the first violins he glared meaningfully at Conductor Karl Alwin, tried vainly to force a faster tempo. Suddenly the audience gasped, the musicians faltered. The brawny arms of Basso Chaliapin were beating out an aerial quick-step at the orchestra in the middle of a duet. Before the nervous and fascinated audience, Conductor Alwin brought the orchestra to order with a sweep of his baton, held it to his chosen tempo for the rest of the opera. Sequel: A riled...
Married. Mary Lewis, 27, one-time Follies soprano; to Michel Franz Bohnen, 39, muscular? basso-baritone; both of the Metropolitan Opera; in Manhattan, by Mayor J. J. Walker...
...cast chosen for this performance rivals the repertoire in brilliancy. Clandio Muszio, one of the foremost primadonnas, will sing the leading role. Eide Norena, known throughout Europe as the Norwegian nightingale, and Virgilio Lazzari, one of the finest basso-baritones and an actor of exceptional ability, are included in the cast...
...Basso. Recently Mrs. Louise MacPherson fell, fractured her hip. Her husband, Joseph, about to make his debut before the jeweled Metropolitan audience and 38 fellow-townsmen who had traveled all the way from Nashville, Tenn., for the occasion, visited her in the hospital, left, chased a taxi, caught a cold, could not appear as the King in Aida (TIME, Dec. 20). Last week Basso MacPherson sang. He has a pleasant near-basso voice. But only two Nashville people witnessed the triumph-his mother-in-law and his teacher. Because the Metropolitan Opera does not broadcast, Mrs. MacPherson turned...
Thirty-eight citizens of Nashville, Tenn., sat in the Metropolitan Opera House last week and heard a performance of Al far below that of the numberless performances of this opera that have been given at the Metropolitan, but the 38 citizens had come to hear basso Joseph T. MacPherson sing the part of the King, and Joseph T. MacPherson was absent. Four years ago Basso MacPherson sang in a home talent benefit show to buy bats and balls for a sandlot ball-team on which he played. Singing teachers heard him, advised him to cultivate his voice. He gave...