Word: kostelanetz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lily Pons fares no better: "The singing of a coloratura is a cross between cackle and a whistle, and performers on the vocal high wire and trapeze are utterly devoid of musical interest to me." O'Connell attacks Lily ("The Pons That Depresses") and husband André Kostelanetz with a waspish malice that a few, backhanded compliments fail to soften. He dislikes their "hand-decorated and chromium-plated" music, inveighs against their commercialism, even gossips that Lily's high heels are designed "to distract the eye from rather generous dimensions in the horizontal planes...
...year-old Lily Pons back into the Met fold. She is still the most competent coloratura in the business, and the Met was ready to admit it, after trying to build up an unproved fledgling, 18-year-old Patrice Munsel while Lily flew off with her husband, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz, on U.S.O. tours...
...Girl"). Fielding is a former child prodigy who made concert violin tours at eleven, studied under Joseph Szigeti, spent the war staging concerts for the London Philharmonic in 70 provincial towns. As a budding impresario, he always bills himself above his artists. Last week, for another Kostelanetz concert, he modestly gave himself second billing to royalty. His posters read: "In the gracious presence of Her Majesty the Queen, Harold Fielding presents Andre Kostelanetz. . . . " London newspapers sent reporters to write about the Queen-but most of their music critics stayed away...
Fielding's first importation was Conductor Andre Kostelanetz and wife Lily Pons. Critics mauled Kostelanetz's opening program of classical bromides and filigree jazz. Said the Daily Mail: "The minuet [third movement of Beethoven's First Symphony] was turned into a gallop and the finale beat all musical records on the dirt track. Lily Pons, otherwise Mrs. Kostelanetz, sang Lo, Here the Gentle Lark, Caro Nome and other coloratura tidbits. Such agile vocalizing may have impressed the film fans but it sounded very old-fashioned...
...Andre Kostelanetz, by Chrysler...