Word: journet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metropolitan Revivals (Enrico Caruso. Luisa Tetrazzini, Marcella Sembrich. Antonio Scotti, Geraldine Farrar, Marcel Journet, Louise Homer and others; Victor; 8 sides). Despite their mechanical and tonal obsolescence, Victor's oldtime recordings prove that the Golden Age voices were as beautiful as oldtimers claim...
...early Victrola era, a prized record was the $7 single-sided Sextet from Lucia, sung by Caruso, Tetrazzini, Jacoby, Amato, Journet, Bada. In the hysterical years of World War I, secret service men shadowed non-Germans Leopold Stokowski, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Leopold Godowsky. The conductor-worshiping '205 showed the most extreme faddism ("Toscanini conducting Italian nonsense could pack the hall"). In the late-lamented Flagstad epoch, Tristan & Isolde grossed $150,000 in nine performances, "thereby becoming the greatest 'hit' ever to strike Broadway...