Word: dux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians* was proudly fathered by Albert E. Wier with the collaboration of a 14-man editorial staff. A bouncing, 8¼-lb. infant, Wier's Encyclopedia made a few natural messes (misplaced Composer Robert Schumann, killed off very-much-alive Soprano Claire Dux), but otherwise bawled informatively along through 2,089 pages. In any ordinary year Editor Wier's weighty off spring might have taken first prize. But this week another lusty 8-lb. volume, The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians,† was brought forth by portly Oscar Thompson. Editor Thompson...
...Berlin 25 years ago Claire Dux was singing Wagnerian roles as few others could. When Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier was first put on in London she enchanted Covent Garden with her girlish Sophie. Next year Londoners heard her again in The Magic Flute, called her one of the best Mozart singers alive. She had three glorious years in Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen...
Chicagoans had never heard the German soprano when Mary Garden took her there in 1921. Because Director Campani persistently gave her Italian roles. Dux did not repeat her European triumphs. Critics never dreamed what a voice she had until she sang Elsa in a summer production of Lohengrin...
...Claire Dux married Charles Henry Swift. Packer Swift is one of the richest men in Chicago and has helped its Symphony for 30 years. Claire Dux soloed with the Chicago Symphony in 1935. Last week she sang with the Symphony again. While Packer Swift watched anxiously from his box, Dux undertook the Strauss and Mozart she has loved since youth. Though her voice has lost freshness and size, she treated every phase with marvelous control. When, later in the week, Dux repeated her concert, she caused the Journal of Commerce's Claudia Cassidy to exclaim of Strauss...
...Tuition for the course ("Opera - Stage Deportment - Dramatic Song''): $150. From hundreds of applicants, all of whom were supposed to have had training and to show great promise. Miss Garden selected 51. Nine qualified for scholarships given by such people as Mrs. Charles H. Swift (Soprano Claire Dux) and Mrs. Archibald Freer, who stipulated that her beneficiary must learn and sing an aria from her opera. Joan of Arc. Youngest pupil is a girl of 16, oldest a Chicago concert singer named Marie Zendt, fiftyish. Though Miss Garden began teaching with great gusto and abandon, sometimes slapping...