Word: bassos
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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...
...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...
...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...