Word: bassos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hayes, although for years Hayes has been the only Negro to sell out a hall of Carnegie's size. Hayes is slight, frail-appearing. He sings spirituals artfully, in a high voice that is often reedy. The Negro who sang last week in Manhattan was as tall as Basso Feodor Chaliapin and brawnier. His voice was big and mellow. He sang simply. He was Paul Robeson, athlete-actor-baritone. Last week's was his first U. S. appearance after a three-year absence in Europe...
...Even in Ernst Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf, presented last year at the Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Jan. 28) and before that in many a European capital, there was much discussion because Hero Jonny is supposed to be a black-face comedian. The Metropolitan authorities worried about letting Basso Michael Bohnen wear full, realistic black-face makeup, thought perhaps his neck should show white to reassure prejudiced observers. At the dress rehearsal the neck was white. It looked so absurd that at the performance it was blackened like the face...
...Basso Feodor Chaliapin boomed a Russian folksong at her with an arm around her so that she could feel his "vibrations...
...Gioconda, substituted for Norma because of the illness of Rosa Fonselle, Basso Tancredi Pasero had excellent 'Opportunity as the prisoner-husband Alvise to prove himself a notable singing-actor...
...Other new singers will be Sopranos Florence Macbeth and Thelma Votipha. Tenor Theodore Strack (Hungarian) and Basso Carl Bitterl. Conductor Frank St. Leger and Tenor Theodore Ritch have been re-engaged. Naurent Novikoff, onetime partner of Anna Pavlowa, will direct the ballet school...