Word: caruso
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Woodworth will welcome into the Glee Club almost anyone from a Caruso to a bathroom tenor; and provided that one's voice is not too painfully crow-like or one's musical instincts too hopelessly at odds with the more authoritative notions of the composer, the prospects of becoming a permanent member are excellent. Once a member, real musical enjoyment is almost guaranteed. Faithful attendance at rehearsals is rewarded by inclusion in the concert list and the final big concert of the year with the Radcliffe Choral Society in Symphony Hall is well worth the preparation...
...Michigan. On Nov. 2, 1920, the Pittsburgh station broadcast returns of the Presidential election. Westinghouse then continued with semiweekly broadcasts, until Dec. i, 1920 when daily programs commenced. Neither of the rivals can claim priority except as a commercial station. Lee de Forest broadcast the voice of Enrico Caruso from the top of the Metropolitan Opera in 1908. Other pre-War radiocasters were Dr. Frank Conrad of Westinghouse and Robert Gowen of De Forest Radio Telephone & Telegraph...
...served as the first important cinema vehicle for Baritone Nelson Eddy, whose concert audiences have been clamoring ever since for Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. Hollywood had barely tapped the Herbert catalog before. It used The Fortune Teller as a Spanish short to display the negligible talents of Enrico Caruso Jr. The Red Mitt plot served Marion Davies once in the days of silent pictures. A distorted version of Mademoiselle Modiste called Kiss Me Again passed by practically unnoticed when it was produced in 1931. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer experimented with Babes in Toyland (1934), kept only three of the original...
...tterdämmerung; the tender Siegfried Idyll, composed by Wagner as a Christmas serenade for his wife Cosima the year after their son Siegfried was born. The Toscanini performances are peerless, the recordings faithful. First week sales were unparalleled, according to record dealers, since the days of Caruso. From headquarters in Camden. N. J., RCA Victor reported that few other albums have sold so well in a year as Toscanini's did in the first few days after its release...
...born a Borgia, descendant and namesake of the Renaissance Lucrezia. In Spain it was considered a disgrace for an aristocrat to adopt a stage career. Bori changed her name, made her debut in Italy in 1908. Four years later she was at the Metropolitan singing with Caruso at an opening night...