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March 1?Revival of Charpentier's Louise at Metropolitan Opera House. Manhattan. Principals: Lucrezia Bori. Antonin Trantoul...
Decorated. Lucrezia Bori, Spanish soprano at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House; with the Royal Order of Isabella la Catolica; by Don Alejandro Padilla y Bell, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S.; for services to art. Last year she was given the order of Alfonso XII, conferred also for artistic distinction...
...actors and vaudevillians frequently gather and perform for the financial sake of some sweet charity, but musicians are supposedly more serious, isolated folk who do not indulge in such mass gestures. Thus it was contrary to precedent last week when, before a Manhattan audience of some 3,000, Soprano Lucrezia Bori permitted herself to be hoisted up on a piano by Pianist Ernest Schelling and to sit, swinging her pretty legs, singing Spanish songs. Pianists José Iturbi, Harold Bauer, Josef Lhevinne, Ernest Hutcheson, Harold Samuel, John Erskine, Rudolph Ganz and Olga Samaroff formed a three-team relay...
During recent years Spain has sent the U. S. many an expert musician. 'Cellist Pablo Casals and Soprano Lucrezia Bori led the procession. They were followed by Conductor Enrique Fernandez Arbos, guest of the St. Louis Symphony, Guitarist Andrès Segovia, and Dancer Argentina who makes music with her heels and castanets. This year has added two more names, the Aguilar Lutanists (TIME, Dec. 2) and José Iturbi, famed throughout Europe and South America as Spain's greatest pianist...
...Well in advance, Lucrezia Bori scanned the countryside, found a house to fit her artistic requirements in fashionable Lake Forest. Bori operas: La Rondine, L'Amore del Tre Re, Mignon, La Vida Breve, The Secret of Suzanne...