Word: lillies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lilli Lehmann...
...Washington. There followed study in New York, with Farrar the Student a frequent standee at the "Met," learning the ways of Melba, Calv�, Lilli Lehmann, Jean de Reszk�, learning to her greater advantage what pleased the purse-poor folk around her who scarcely missed a performance. She studied a year in Washington, was taken one afternoon to call on Mrs. McKinley. News came: DEWEY VICTORIOUS AT MANILA?and Farrar, still the Student, sat down at the piano, played and sang the "Star Spangled Banner...
...followed much shaking of heads. Was not Norma 96 years old, relic of another age when song had been all-important and there were such phenomena as singers? Was not Norma the most exacting role ever set before a prima donna and had anyone ever done it justice since Lilli Lehmann last sang it at the Metropolitan...
...York Symphony is next oldest to the New York Philharmonic in the U. S. It has introduced to the U. S. such famed composers as Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Elgar, Rimsky-Korsakov; introduced such artists as Paderewski, Kreisler, Saint-Saens, Sarasate, Lilli Lehmann and Hans von Bulow. It has toured some 400,000 miles, played to 8,000,000. Harry Harkness Flagler is the sole guarantor...
...Miss Wills and Señorita de Alvarez walked off the court, the new champion chanced to be a step behind at the gate. Señorita Lilli de Alvarez smiled in friendly fashion, stepped aside, and gestured for Miss Wills to pass. "Queens first!" she said...