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...considerations have prompted me to write this book on Enrico Caruso's art: first, the desire to pay my tribute to the memory of a friend and a great artist, and second, the hope that I could pass on to all who are concerned with the art of singing Caruso's methods . . . and ideals of singing as well as his practical advice to singers." So speaks Salvatore Yucito, Caruso's coach and accompanist from 1915 until the great tenor's death in 1921, in introduction to his "Caruso and the Art of Singing." (Stokes...
...story of Enrico Caruso's life is that of his art. The two are inseparable, and so while the book is primarily concerned with Caruso's methods, a great deal of enjoyable biography creeps into it. Thus we hear of him as a schoolboy of Naples, playing hookey and swimming in the bay. He did not take kindly to education or to work in the De Lucca Mechanical Laboratories where his father was employed, and so on his mother's death, Enrico, aged fifteen, left home and became a scugnizzo, a wandering singer of the streets, singing...
...student of the art of singing and the lover of Caruso this book by his coach and accompanist will be doubly valuable...
...resembling this diary has ever appeared, and we have been assured from several sources that nothing like it will ever appear again." The original needed no exaggeration, and the most delicate perversion has emphasized the absurd flavor of the articles. The animals' names are masterpieces, and Robinson Crusoe Caruso and Hopalong Cassidy should be godfathers to many family pets...
Many brilliant and mystifying features distinguish the program. Pvt. Durlin, masquerading as Senior Caruso, charms the audience with his vocal melodies; but Pvt. Hays '19 promptly arouses the pit to a blood-thirsty state when he bursts forth in tenor; howover, justice is soon done when is is mercifully hypnotized by a hysterious person who is said to be in close connection with the spirit world. Harry Lauder is very ably personified by William Cantor; while Pvt. Cody makes an excellent rube. A championship bout between battlers Connolly and Newton brings the show to an exciting finish...