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...will be one of the greatest of blessings if the Metropolitan gives Don Giovanni next year. This is a masterpiece that one rarely gets a chance to hear. The basso that can sing and play the role of that prodigious Don Juan Tenorio, who was such a favorite among the virgins of Spain, is seldom to be found. The Metropolitan now, however, has a man with a reputation for singing Don Giovanni. He is Michael Bohnen, who made his American debut in the middle of the season. Bohnen is that exceptional phenomenon among singers, a man of high intelligence...
...Wagnerian Festival Company, now on tour in this country, one wished that a skillfully played piano were in operation, rather than an atrocious orchestra. The Society of American Singers is an interesting organization. It is directed and financed by William Wade Hinshaw, a few years ago a splendid basso with the Metropolitan Opera Company. After retiring from singing, he turned to the patronage of music, and took hold of the Society of American Singers. The organization gave two or three memorable seasons of light opera in New York, including most of the Gilbert and Sullivan works. For some reason...
...Symphony Hall Sunday afternoon, the famous Russian basso, Feodor, Challapin, sang before a large and wildly-enthusiastic audience. His programme was as follows: First group: "Aleko", Rachmaninoff; "Yermak Tinofelevitch". Ippolitoff-Ivanoff; "Die beiden Grenadiere", Schumann. Second group: "We parted haughtily", Dargomizhsky; "Pretty Lady" (from "Don Juan"), Mozart: "When the king went forth to war", Koeneman; Volga Boat-song; "Mephisto's Song of the Flea", Mouseorgsky...
...tempo, was given an authoritative interpretation. Chaliapin answered the thunderous applause at the end of each group with several encores. Perhaps the best of these was the "Inquesta tomba" of Beethoven. Both of the assisting artists, a planist and a 'cellist, served as a good contrast for the impeecable basso of the Metropolitan...
...love" from the game of tennis. No more is that soft-sounding epithet to be applied to one's opponent or oneself amid the thuds of racquet against ball. One-in, two-out, three-all replace the dulcet tones of fifteen-love, and love-thirty, and the dignified basso of dence...