Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tony Pastor, born in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, made his singing debut in 1842, aged 6, at meetings of the Hand-in-Hand Temperance Society. One of the most popular themes of his, and others', early vaudeville songs was the plight of Labor...
Year ago, hailed by Boston's patrician Conductor Serge Koussevitzky, she made her Town Hall debut, unleashed a voice for which everyone predicted a future. Last week, long before she got to the inevitable Negro spirituals, Soprano Maynor showed that her future had begun. Her voice had rounded at the top, where it needed to; her knowledge of what she was about had deepened. Tenderly she sang Schumann's Du bist wie eine Blume, chicly she trilled a trifle of Bizet...
Soprano Maynor, whose patroness (Miss Mary Hayden of Boston) had to buy her debut gown last year, is now in the bank-account class. She has moved from Manhattan's Harlem to musical West 57th Street. Besides singing with the four major symphony orchestras (New York Philharmonic, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago), she made a triumphant concert return to Hampton Institute, in whose choir her voice began. This season Dorothy Maynor has engagements in 27 States, is making two big cross-country tours. Boxofficially she is not yet the peer of big-voiced Contralto Marian Anderson, who sells out Carnegie Hall...
...Zucca was born Mana Zuckerman, in New York City. She was musically prodigious. Her pressagents claim that, on her third birthday, she furiously demolished a toy piano because it had no F sharp and she could not play The Last Rose of Slimmer on it. Mana-Zucca made her debut as a pianist at eight with the New York Symphony under Dr. Walter Damrosch. Year later she published her first composition...
...rejuvenated Adams House team engages a weakened Lowell House eleven on Wednesday afternoon in what should prove to be a closely contested opener for the House Tackle Football League. Dudley and Eliot make their seasonal debut on the same afternoon with Dudley favored over the Elephants...