Word: galli-curci
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...press. Her omnipresent teacher, Mrs. Margaret Strickler, a bosomy, flop-hatted kind of Madame Svengali, was hovering near by. When reporters asked Margaret about one selection on her program, La Fauvette avec ses Petits from Grétry's Zémire et Azor, Mrs. Strickler muscled in: "Galli-Curci was the only other one I've heard sing it. I might say that her voice was very similar, too." Margaret laughed it off: "That will be enough of that...
...Director" ("who writes His own plays") ordered him to move on to the U.S. Soon he became a popular lecturer, initiated "tens of thousands of Americans" -to whom he dedicated his first volume of poems, Whispers from Eternity, which appeared in 1929 with an introduction by Opera Singer Amelita Galli-Curci...
...dusty collection of rare minerals, pet dormice, horses, French governesses, peasants and pheasants. Winter & summer, day began at 5 a.m., when Lord Alconleigh greeted the dawn with one his favorite records (Drake Is Sailing West, Lads, the "mad" scene from Lucia, or Lo, Here the Gentle Lark, sung by Galli-Curci), and strode on to the lawn cracking a Canadian stock whip. After breakfast, he gave his daughters a brief head start, then hunted them crosscountry with four bloodhounds...
...days of Enrico Caruso and Galli-Curci, the record companies built their fortunes on single operatic records. Last week, after a long absence, they went back into this once profitable field. Victor released 16 familiar arias and duets from the Metropolitan Opera Company's repertory. Columbia, a bit behind, had Baritone Herbert Janssen on two Tannhauser arias...
...nearest thing to such a voice that this generation of U.S. operagoers is familiar with is the neat, flutelike warbling of Lily Pons. She is the capable but hardly startling descendant of a great line beginning with Jenny Lind and including Adelina Patti, Nellie Melba, Luisa Tetrazzini, Amelita Galli-Curci. Measuring Korjus against the yardstick of their memories, old-timers placed her somewhere near the Pons mark, admired the warmth, vibrancy and agility of her voice, which reminded them slightly of Melba...