Word: gallie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...revealed not in Leningrad but in Philadelphia, where a pleasant, grey-haired old lady named Nadejda Galli-Shohat had been living obscurely, after teaching physics at the University of Michigan, Bryn Mawr and Mount Holyoke. A U.S. resident since 1923, Nadejda Galli-Shohat, though she had never said much about it, is Shostakovich's aunt...
...spirit high: steadily and surely Miss Cassidy became known to an ever wider public as the best music critic in Chicago. Her two 18-carat assets: 1) a shrewd sense of musical values, 2) a gift of writing pointed criticism engagingly. Examples: (after Galli-Curci's ill-fated attempt at a comeback) "Instead of cream velvet jeweled with coloratura splendor there is an unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading for reincarnation"; (describing William Walton's Scapino Overture) "A blithe, scapegrace carefree sort of score, it makes you think Walton must have whistled it when...