Word: caruso
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gathered backstage Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of the Phil harmonic Board of Directors, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Packer Charles Henry Swift and his wife Soprano Claire Dux, Pianist Jose Iturbi, Violinist Joseph Szigeti. Hovering benignly about was tall, handsome Bruno Zirato, onetime personal representative of Enrico Caruso, engaged this year to fill the same sort of position for Toscanini...
Bushy-haired, Rome-born Maestro Sal-maggi has presented grand opera for many a year. Great & good friend of the late Enrico Caruso ("with him I was like a brother"), onetime mandolin teacher to the late Italian Queen Margherita, all his life a musician & music promoter, Maestro Salmaggi nevertheless has no love for an age that has reduced music largely to phonographs, radios. Feeling no musician can avoid the temptation of thus being reproduced he cries with Latin vehemence: "I would rather have a boy of mine [he is nine times a father] be a barber than a musician. Anybody?...
...sail for Australia with Willie Collier and a road company of The Dictator when the 1906 earthquake occurred. Having spent the previous night away from home unexpectedly, he had nothing to put on but a full dress suit. In the bewildered, terrified crowds in the street he met Enrico Caruso and Diamond Jim Brady. They took back to New York the story that Barrymore had "dressed" for the earth quake. The commander of a local U. S. Army post recruited him to boss a gang of men in reconstruction work. He wrote home a harrowing account of his experiences, asking...
...with interest in your phonograph record notes that records by the Great Enrico Caruso are still being released. Is it still possible to obtain Caruso Tosca records...
...late Enrico Caruso made one Tosca record-"E lucevan e stelle" on one side. "Recondita armonia" on the other (Victor...