Word: cecilia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's ablest woman skater. Last spring Sonja Henie stopped skating in tournaments to skate in the cinema and last week's winner, heir to Miss Henie's title, was an English girl who may hold it just as long. She was strong-legged Cecilia Colledge, 16-year-old daughter of Dr. Lionel Colledge, socialite London ear & throat specialist. Day after she won the title, with 2,528.9 points to 2,488.1 for her closet rival, England's Megan Taylor, Champion Colledge sailed...
...London's 1928 world skating championship, Cecilia Colledge, 7, with her hair in pigtails, went with her mother who met a friend. The friend was Mrs. Thomas M. Vinson, there to chaperon and applaud her daughter Maribel, who last fortnight won the North American women's figure skating championship. By the time the Colledges left the rink, Mrs. Colledge had been fired with the ambition of making her daughter as good a skater as Mrs. Vinson's Maribel, who had promised to send small Cecilia a pair of skates she had outgrown. The skates fitted Cecilia exactly...
First move in Mrs. Colledge's plot to make her daughter a world-champion skater was to remove her from school, take her to Norway for expert skating instruction. The next year the Colledges stayed in London and Cecilia's training was entrusted to Swiss Jakob Gerschweiler. He lived in the Colledge home, told Cecilia what to eat, taught her not only skating but also French and German. For eleven months a year for the next eight years Cecilia Colledge followed the same routine every day-six hours of skating lessons supplemented by dancing lessons, exercises, massages...
Respighi needed a few more days to finish Lucrezia when he died of heart disease. Elsa Respighi promised to write the last 42 pages, and better than anyone alive was she qualified to do so. When she was a pretty, dark-eyed girl at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, Elsa Olivieri Sangiacomo dreamed of being a composer and an opera star. She learned composition from Respighi, wrote songs, a symphonic poem, a dance suite, a fairy tale opera. In 1919 Respighi married...
Igor Stravinsky, a present-day Russian composer who has been inspired by Rimsky-Korsakov, dedicated to the Boston Symphony Orchestra on its fiftieth anniversary a work entitled Symphony of Psalms. This is to be performed again at this week's concerts with the Cecilia Society as the chorus. As a text, Stravinsky has taken three of the Psalms and scored them for orchestra (without violins and violas) and mixed chorus; there are three movements, the second of which is in the form of a fugue. Here as always, Stravinsky's vigorous rhythms are very much present and give the work...