Word: contraltos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grade: The careers of Negro notables such as Contralto Marian Anderson, Bass-Baritone Paul Robeson...
...body of guests was divided into three smaller groups with a guide for each. The tour began in the Venetian Court Yard, which is particularly spectacular at this season with a brilliant assortment of flowers, and was followed by a musical in the Tapestry rooms, with Miss Virginia Raymond, contralto, and Reginald Boardman, pianist, in joint concert...
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Vienna Philharmonic, Bruno Walter conducting, with Kerstin Thorborg, contralto, and Charles Kullman, tenor; Columbia; 14 sides). A reissue of Columbia's 1936 recording, when the Vienna Philharmonic was still at its pre-Nazi best. Mahler's symphonic setting of the verses of Li Tai Po and other Chinese immortals remains one of the few great musical compositions of the 20th Century, one of the most tragic works in all musical literature...
...Salmaggi also likes to brag that 24 of his singers have later landed at the Metropolitan. When plump Contralto Bruna Castagna made her U.S. debut with Salmaggi at Manhattan's Hippodrome a few years ago, first-string critics acclaimed her as the foremost Carmen of her generation and the Met snapped...
...part of Venus, usually sung by a contralto, had been specially picked for Soprano Lawrence's comeback: it is perhaps the only part in all opera that can be sung from start to finish without having to stand or walk. For a soprano of Marjorie Lawrence's range its contralto depths offered no serious hurdles. She is not content to rest on last week's laurels. After the performance, as she held court in her dressing room, somebody recalled that she had made her Metropolitan debut as athletic Brünnhilde. Said she: "I shall sing that...