Word: debutanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Frida Leider decided to remain in Europe this winter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company engaged a strapping Austrian soprano named Anny Konetzni to sing heroic Wagnerian roles. Anny Konetzni had been a swimming champion and a contralto, before she went up in the scale. For her debut performance last week she donned the feathers and breastplate of the Walkure Brünnhilde, proved herself a routine interpreter with a big pleasant voice which she had trouble controlling...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House resembled a miniature sitting-room one afternoon last week. The antechamber was shut off from the house by a glass partition. In it were flowers, a shaded lamp, a piano and a charming white-haired lady. Geraldine Farrar was making her debut as raconteuse for the Metropolitan broadcasts...
...University of Oklahoma in 1920. As a singer he was a pupil of the late great Jean de Reszke, a protégé of Chicago's old Kate Buckingham who gave Grant Park its fountain. Kate Buckingham gave Joe Benton a big champagne party after his debut last week in Tosca. Critics praised a new tenor who had a high clear voice and could...
Paul Wittgenstein, famed one-armed Austrian pianist, had made his U. S. debut with the Boston Symphony, playing a Concerto especially composed for him by Maurice Ravel. Bostonians closed their eyes because it seemed incredible that a single left hand could compass a keyboard so quickly and completely, make the treble sound clear and strong while the bass poured out a seething undercurrent. Compared with most pianists, Paul Wittgenstein has a fairly small hand. His trick was to train it to lightning speed, to develop his pedal technique so that he could cover transitions gracefully and subtly, give a solid...
Wittgenstein was once a prize pupil of the Master Leschitizky who taught Paderewski. In those days he had two hands. Year after his Viennese debut came the War. Like any loyal 25-year-old Austrian, he went off to fight. On the way to the Russian frontier his right arm was wounded. He lost consciousness, woke up to find himself in a Russian prison camp. He was shunted about behind the lines, spent six months in Siberia before his group was exchanged for Russian prisoners in Austria...