Word: bassos
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...Dusolina Giannini, whose teacher was the late Marcella Sembrich (see below), went sadly to Detroit last week. The increasingly popular Lotte Lehmann sang at the Metropolitan, then in Washington and Princeton. Mary Garden was resting in Manhattan before her last Debussy recital. After a two years' absence big Basso Feodor Chaliapin will come zooming back to the U. S. this week, sing first in Kansas City...
...piano Stravinsky became a composer more important, his champions insist, than Richard Strauss or Jean Sibelius, the other great S's of 20th Century music. Stravinsky's father, a basso at the Maryinsky Theatre in Petrograd, encouraged the boy so long as he was content to remain an amateur. He went dutifully to the University to study law but his marks were consistently poor. At 20 the die of his career was cast when the great Rimsky-Korsakoff took him for a pupil...
...Quichotte, had commissioned new tunes from Jacques Ibert, able pupil of Maurice Ravel. George Wilhelm Pabst, exiled German Jew famed for his Kameradschaft, The Beggar's Opera and White Hell of Pitz Palu, was directing two versions, one in French, the other in English. In both versions Russian Basso Feodor Chaliapin was playing and singing the Caballero de la Triste Figura. He was getting $200,000. To look more like the lank old knight he had dieted and exercised to reduce his barrel figure. Spectators on location noted that the fastidious singer-actor Flitted daily the ribby old horse...
...mezzo-soprano. Last week's impersonator was Eva Hadrabova, a rangy 27-year-old Czech whose figure is better than her voice. The Sophie was Elisabeth Schumann, longtime friend of Strauss, whose clear thread-like voice perfectly suited the demure fluttery young girl she was supposed to be. Basso Emanuel List made the Baron's comedy as broad as his beam, as obvious as the tuba which kept tabs...
...Yale three radical clubs addressed a long protest to President Angell. But there were only eleven antiFascists waiting outside University Dining Hall to chorus "A basso il Fascismo!" These the Italians proceeded to pummel into silence...