Word: contralto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest concert singers of this generation is Marian Anderson, Philadelphia-born Negro contralto. Since she skyrocketed to fame in Salzburg four years ago, the music-lovers and critics of the world's musical capitals have counted it a privilege to hear her sing. Last week it looked as though music-lovers in provincial Washington, D.C. might be denied this privilege. Reason: Washington's only large concert auditorium, Constitution Hall, is owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution, who are so proud they won't eat mush-much less let a Negro sing from their stage...
WASHINGTON -- Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution in protest against the organization's refusal to permit Marian Anderson, noted Negro contralto, to present a concert at Constitution Hall, it was indicated tonight...
...with Lombard, Grant and Tibbett scheduled to be off, Ronald Colman asked for. and got, release from his contract. This left last Sunday's show in a bad spot. Grant was lured back, Basil Rathbone rounded up. The show went on, distinguished mainly by the singing of Negro Contralto Marian Anderson. Colman's suave management and Carole Lombard's wayward breathlessness were sorely missed. For next week the return of Miss Lombard and Tibbett is promised, but for the future of The Circle its producing agency, J. Walter Thompson Co., is banking heavily on Actor Colman...
...Most sensational debut of the Metropolitan's third week was not Masini's, but that of a young (25), good-looking New York contralto, Rise (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens. Contralto Stevens, who studied at Manhattan's Juilliard Graduate School, had spent three years singing at Prague's New German Theatre and at the Vienna Staatsoper...
...whole lacks that unwieldiness which nearly brought disaster last year. On the debit side thus far must be listed Mr. Burgin's violin solo in the "Benedictus" and the performance of the women soloists. Miss Vreeland, the soprano, has the unfortunate habit of stealing upon notes, while the contralto, Miss Kaskas is too sugary. It is to be hoped that at the actual concerts these flaws will disappear...