Word: dulcinea
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chaliapin made his first (U. S.) appearance* as the Don, proved himself once more a master interpreter, able to grasp what Massenet had been temperamentally unable to?the irony, the humor, the pathos, of the first Don Quixote. On he came, splendidly, madly scattering largesse, singing to his love Dulcinea, who knew him only for a seedy dolt who roamed the countryside. Off he went, for her, to find her necklace stolen by a band of brigands; saw windmills in the clearing mist take shapes of giants making wild gestures with their great revolving arms, charged them in the name...
...give place to none in the position they hold in the eyes of the public. First came Anna Pavlowa, for a "farewell season." The instrument of her return was a ballet based on Cervantes' Don Quixote, Mme. Pavlowa taking the dual role of the Barcelona innkeeper's daughter and Dulcinea del Toboso. When she made her initial entrance among more than 80 other performers, she was at once recognized; and the Manhattan audience shook with enthusiastic applause for five minutes...
...program follows: March: Colonel Miner's Rosencranz Coronation March from The Prophet Mayerbeer Morris Dance Noble Springtime: Valse Intermezzo Drumm March: Harvard's Own Simmons Spanish Suite: Safranek 1. Don Quixote 2. Dulcinea March: El Captain Sousa Procession of Bacchus From the Ballet Sylvia Delibes March: Our Director Bigelow Love Song Doud Solo Cornet: Mr. Hugo L. Blair '25 Suite: Sigurd Jorsalfar Grieg 1. Vorspiel