Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tosca by Italian artists, the chorus of La Scala and the Milan Symphony, under Lorenzo Molajoli (Columbia, $21)-In-terruptions by an excited Italian claque are the only additions needed to make this Tosca sound completely realistic. All Conductor Molajoli's performances move at a swift, theatric pace...
Verdi's Requiem Mass by Soprano Maria Fanelli, Mezzo-Soprano Irene Minghini-Cattaneo, Tenor Franco Lo Giudice, Basso Ezio Pinza and the chorus and orchestra of La Scala, Milan, recorded there under Conductor Carlo Sabajno (Victor, $15)-Verdi's vibrant tribute to Novelist Alessandro Manzoni, of particular interest in Manhattan this year be- cause of a performance under Arturo Toscanini in which Mezzo-Soprano Margaret Matzenauer sang magnificently...
...told, you would certainly never think Heinrich Mann was brother to Nobel Prize-winner Thomas. Their books are poles apart. Thomas's are quiet, philosophical, analytic; Heinrich's loud, nightmarish, operatic. The Little Town is like a garish and improbable opera played at top speed, with singers, chorus and brassy orchestra all blaring at once for dear life. The effect is sometimes uproarious, sometimes deafening, occasionally sinister...
Cream of the collection is a beautifully preserved 16th Dutch Antiphon, or church chorus, with fine illumination and interesting musical notation. Other items are a complete set of the first edition of Walter Scott's writings, probably the only one existing; one of the three inscribed books by Thomas Hardy; Edmund Gosse's autographed set of Keats; first edition; a unique and beautifully bound set of Mark Twain with some of the original manuscript inserted; a set of Shaw's works, all autographed, and unequalled for its completeness...
...Hiff; she worked into show business by smart acting in amateur nights at vaudeville theatres. "Ducky," protested Mrs. La Hiff nightly, "is it necessary for you to kick your limbs so high in Mr. Shubert's shows?" Nancy Carroll continued to kick high. After three weeks in the chorus she was given a leading role. She made her way in Hollywood because she was intelligent. She is married to Playwright John Kirkland (Frankie & Johnnie) and has a four-year-old daughter. Few girls from Tenth Avenue have learned to talk and behave as smartly as she can. Last week...