Word: contraltos
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...explanatory as anyone was ample, well-meaning Contralto Josefina ("Cha-cha") Aguilar, who sang Ponce's La Mort under another conductor. She had handed the six-instrument score to Stokowski. It was not Ponce's score; Ponce, unable to find a full orchestral score, had agreed to let her offer the smaller one to the conductor, but asked her to explain the situation. Somehow the explanation got lost along...
Pink Sitter. Natural bravado has seen modest, round-faced, contralto-voiced Frances Langford through a routine that would have ruined lesser women. She has ranged heartily from woolen underwear in Alaska to a halter-bra in Africa. During...
Marriage Revealed. Marian Anderson, 38, famed Negro contralto; and Orpheus Hodge Fisher, 43, Negro war-plant draftsman, peacetime New York architect, her oldtime beau; last July 17; in Bethel, Conn...
...some short-haired music for a concert at the Army base in San Juan. The shorthair number was St. Louis Blues. "I practiced and I got pretty good," he said. He played it on his Guarnerius instead of the Strad, because the former "had a more earthy, a more contralto quality...
...wife of a Lynchburg, Va. overall manufacturer. Smoky-eyed Lucile Barrow Turner is the poised, ingratiating, slightly helpless-seeming epitome of Southern ladyhood. But when she cuts loose on a blues or a "shoutin' " spiritual, she gives the effect of a New Orleans barrelhouse contralto...