Word: malibran
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...poured $50,000 of his own money into the Institute, has the full backing of many artists in his bid to gain the rights to make authorized one-copy-only tapes of live performances. "What wouldn't we give," says Striker, "to hear Paganini play his Caprices, or Malibran sing Bellini? The next generation may be as critical of us if we neglect to fully preserve the great music...
...real world was only an extension of the unlikely world of opera, a world of passionate hate, tempestuous love and outrageous gesture. The prima donna was larger than life, and a law only to her own towering talent. One composer did not dream of objecting when Maria Malibran (1808-36) regally replaced one whole act he had written with music by another composer. Adelina Patti (1843-1919) traveled in a deluxe private railway car of her own, flanked by husband, dogs, birds and servants. Her fees were stupendous, and one agent protested that she was asking more per month than...
...pages of orchestration in a day. In Broadway's louder and sweeter days, there were as many as 22 Bennett shows playing in one season.While keeping the tin pan boiling, Bennett has written-under the name of Robert Russell Bennett-an Abraham Lincoln Symphony, an opera, Maria Malibran, the fountain-&-fireworks music of the late New York World's Fair, many another serious piece. Now he can play the like of them on Russell Bennett's Notebook...
...race for the Oaks stakes was won by Bonny Jean, with Malibran second, Ettarre third...
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