Word: elsas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House was dark and the Auditorium, refurbished at a cost of $125,000, was open again. The Chicago Bohemians' Club sponsored last week's gala Auditorium concert to help jobless musicians. Sturdy Frederick Stock conducted the Chicago Symphony augmented by outside players to a mighty 200. Soprano Elsa Alsen and Baritone John Charles Thomas sang. Pianist Josef Hofmann left his inventing* long enough to solo in Rubinstein's D Minor Concerto. But it was not the excellent concert which did most to restore the Auditorium's oldtime pride, nor its own spick & span appearance...
...nine but 17 Valkyries galloping over the mountain. Brünnehilde's eight new sisters were given made-up. Wagnerian-sounding names like "Ritthelle." "Kampfsiege," "Trautschilde." There were real gas flames, 10 to 40 ft. high, for the Magic Fire scene. In Die Walküre sang Soprano Elsa Alsen, Basso Fred Patton. Tenor Georg Fassnacht Jr. from the Freiburg Passion Play. In Aïda were Tenor Paul Althouse, Soprano Gina Pinnera...
...Berlin and Vienna. There were choruses of children, men and women, singing in groups as big as 6,000, in German, Swedish, Norwegian and English. From throughout the Northwest, 90 singing bands participated. Minnesota's dirt-farming Lieutenant Governor Henry Arens presided. Featured were Tenor Paul Althouse, Soprano Elsa Alsen, and part of the Minneapolis Symphony directed by able Alexander Smallens, assistant conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Day after the broadcast, farmers and cityfolk strolled about Harriet Park in an informal Sangervolksfest. Here they sang not Wagner or Beethoven but their own songs, beginning casually, swelling mightily as thousands...
Three years after he wrote the Fountains, Respighi married one of his pupils, Elsa Olivieri Sangiacomo, a quiet, mysterious person, part Aztec. She used to compose too, but now she just sings his songs, uses her Indian intuition to help order his career. Their villa high on the outskirts of Rome is named for the second Roman poem - "The Pines...
...Married. Elsa Armour, daughter of Chicago Packer Andrew Watson Armour; and Washington Irving Osborne Jr., Chicago socialite; in Chicago...