Word: hempel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University Glee Club will give one of its most important performances this evening in conjunction with Miss Frieda Hempel, soprano soloist, at Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock. This is the second year that Miss Hempel has assisted the Glee Club at the annual symphony concert, and tonight will be her first appearance in the United States since her very recent concert series at Havana, Cuba. Last summer she made a tour of Europe, singing in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Milan, and numerous other places...
Besides the assistance of Miss Hempel the program will include other novel and special numbers of unusual interest. "O Gladsome Light" which was recently composed especially for the Club, will have its first presentation at the concert this evening, while another attractive feature," Choeur des Chameliers," will be sung for the first time. These pieces, with Miss Hempel's selection, "Far O'er the Bay", in which she will be assisted by the Glee Club, will be the principal numbers on the program. A few tickets for the performance are on hand and may be secured at the box office...
Miss Sophie Braslau, contralio, will be the soloist for the first concert on December 13. Miss Frieda Hempel, the well-known prima donna formerly with the Metropolitan Opera Company, will appear on February...
Besides a Symphony Orchestra of 120 players, a chorus of 1000 voices, a ballet of 100 dancers and 20 solo dancers, a number of special artists have been engaged to perform. Among these will be Lucrezia Bori, Frieda Hempel, Rosa Ponselle, and Arthur Hackett...
...familiar skill and taste. The Glee Club has been remarkably fortunate in its soloists this season in Boston. Like the Boston Symphony Orchestra, however, the Glee Club need not fear that anyone will make disparaging comparisons between its work and that of such admirable assisting artists as Kreisler, Hempel and Albert Spalding. This chorus, almost alone among amateur choruses in the United States, will bear judgment by the highest professional standards. It no longer needs apologists except when it has to cope with people who share the curious prejudice that there is something not thoroughly manly about college men singing...