Word: bassos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moscow the Soviet press roundly scored famed basso Feodor Chaliapin for having "forsaken" Russia to "sing in the lands of Mammon." Numerous Soviet journals gave space to the following "confession" allegedly made by M. Chaliapin to "a member of the Moscow Theatrical Guild, who interviewed him recently at Paris before he left for New York...
...Manhattan. Basso Feodor Chaliapin came back to the Metropolitan as a guest artist in Boris, sang superbly, blew kisses to the gallery from the tips of his enormous fingers, went away to drink a glass of Chianti with friends...
...Francisco. Because trouble is remembered longer than pleasure, men make calendars of their catastrophies. In Tokyo they say "since the Earthquake," in Johnstown "since the Flood," in San Francisco "since the Fire. . ." Marcel Journet, famed French basso, has sung in most of the capitals of the world and avoided most of the world's disasters, but he has not sung in Tokyo since the Quake, he has not sung in Johnstown since the Flood, nor, until last week, had he sung in San Francisco since the Fire. His great voice boomed there last week; other famed singers tuned their...
...Fields of the publishing-business present the first collection ever wilfully made of those maundering melodies Mandy Lee, Sivect Adeline, I've Been Working on the Railroad, Some Folks Say That a Nigger Won't Steal, et al. There is a foreword by Ring Lardner, alleged basso. There is whimsical but practical explanation of the broad technique essential to impromptu cantatas-"swipes," "seventh heaven," "amen corner," Russian depths and breath control. Most important are the actual scores of a dozen much-mangled tunes and the standard words, disputes over which have rent asunder the closest of harmonizers. Slipped...
...place called Ravinia, 21 miles north. Why anyone should want to be going to Ravinia puzzled a number of dolts, until they read how one Louis Eckstein was presenting operas there. The first was L'Amore dei Tre Re, with Martinelli, Bori and Virgilio Lazzari, "the best basso that has hung in Paris for 30 years...