Word: contralto
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...actor, Polish Tenor Jan Kiepura does not know his own strength. Last summer in an outdoor performance of Carmen at Chicago's Soldier Field, vigorous Kiepura acted so hard in the third act quarrel scene that he knocked handsome Contralto Gladys Swarthout cold. That gave somebody's pressagent an idea...
...charity, opera's Tenor Jan Kiepura, Contralto Coe Glade, Basso Douglas Beattie pulled Salvation Army caps down over their identities, stood on a busy Chicago street corner for ten minutes and gave out with song. (Kiepura hummed in somewhat uncharitable economy of his voice.) The melody was golden, but the take was only $2. "It wasn't bad," said Beattie afterwards, "considering the fact that people walking by on the street are intent on other things...
...round in the three-year-old fencing match between the D.A.R. and colored Contralto Marian Anderson, the D.A.R.ters who had finally asked her to sing in Washington's Constitution Hall got an acceptance with provisos: that there be no audience segregation, that she be allowed to sing there again sometime. So the D.A.R.ters withdrew the invitation. Then Marian Anderson accepted anyway. But Sol Hurok, her publicity-wise manager, would not let the quarrel lapse. Said he: "Since the executive committee has not referred in its letter to the matter of segregation . . . Miss Anderson understands that this is no barrier...
...TIME, Oct. 5, page 25, an article under "Races" states: "First Liberty ship to bear a Negro's name, she is the first to be christened by a member of the Negro race-Marian Anderson, contralto...
Dinah explains her throaty singing style by saying that blues are "fundamental, instinctive." She has two other explanations: 1) her old Southern mammy exposed her at an early age to Negro spirituals; 2) her voice changed from soprano to contralto due to cheerleading at Vanderbilt University...