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...Canadian living in New York I got a big kick out of your timely appreciation of Conductor Wilfred Pelletier's success with Soprano Jeritza in "Carmen" in Philadelphia. As a TIMEkeeper, I am loyal enough to be puffed up that TIME is the first newspaper to give Canadian Pelletier the praise he has long deserved. . . . He began his musical career by playing in a small movie house in Montreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...being the first singing actress. Farrar made her Carmen a hoyden as incalculable as the wind, kept it popular in Manhattan to the end of her regime. Mary Garden has done similar service in Chicago. Last week for the first time, the Metropolitan presented the Carmen of Maria Jeritza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ravel | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...Jeritza whose turbulent, golden, hot-blooded loveliness has always been a notable attraction for the truly discerning connoisseur of grand opera, perhaps failed to personify the sudden, mercurial, fate-defeated Carmen. Critics could not forget that she was more Czech than Spanish, that her French was bad, that she was unfaithful to detail, that the "Habanera" should never have been sung from a wheelbarrow nor the "Sequidilla" from the garrison table. They postponed their verdict. But the mass of the audience perceiving these aesthetic errors, clapped and cheered after every act. After the last, they tossed their roses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ravel | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...Jeritza. There have been scores of stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Again, Farrar | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...Farrar left the Metropolitan. Greatest publicity has been given to an alleged row with Maria Jeritza, new Austrian import then, because Jeritza was given certain of Farrar's roles. But Farrar and Jeritza never met, the latter admired the U. S. singer tremendously, went often to hear her. The truth was that Farrar, sole relic of the Conried star system, was getting bits of discipline from the management. She herself was tired out, vocally, spiritually. The death of her mother had been difficult for her. There had been the divorce from Cinema-Hero Lou Tellegen* whom she married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Again, Farrar | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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