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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: On Stokowski | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: G.I. Nightingale | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 29, 1943 | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 9, 1943 | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lucile Turner's Blues | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

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