Word: maria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Married. Maria Iturbi, 18, daughter of Jose Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor; and Stephen Hero, 20, concert violinist, Iturbi's protege; in Bedford Hills...
...Maria had left home to study art, not just to leave home. She lived cheaply in the attic of a Munich boarding house, worked all day every day at the studio where she was the only girl. She had talent, but she was also pretty, 20. Elderly fellow-boarders mooed at her yearningly; she hardly noticed. Young Painter Erni went tramping with her in the country and might have had her for the asking, but he had scruples. Sculptor Ulitsch, ruthless woman-hunter, fascinated her, then frightened her away. She took refuge with an unfeminine girlfriend, and Bohemia was soon...
Most recent candidate, introduced in Rome by Canon Mugnier from Paris, is Anne de Guigne who "died in the odor of sanctity at the age of 11" in 1922. She was a descendant of St. Louis, King of France. The special virtue of Maria Filippetto (1912-27) was "patient suffering for the love of God." Antonito Martinez Herrera (1920-29) was known for his "humility and charity." Guy de Font-galland (1913-25), son of an aristocratic Parisian family, made his First Communion at 7, wished to become a missionary priest but believed he heard a voice say: "My little...
...many a year. One Viennese critic described her as "a black Lilli Lehmann." That she is not. But she is an exciting, sure-voiced singer who would make any race proud. Her Handel songs instantly revealed a breadth and nobility of style. Her Schubert Ave Maria was not something interpolated to catch popular fancy; it was fervent, even as an organ tone, deeply impressive. Even more moving was Der Tod und das Mädchen, in which she made a sustained low D seem incidental to the horror of the dying girl, the call of Death itself. Thereafter came...
...completely unsuited to it. Most effective impersonation was by fiery Emma Calvé, though purists fussed at her because she took liberties with the music. Farrar's popular Carmen lacked the finesse of many of her other roles. Mary Garden was not at her best in the part. Maria Jeritza failed to stand the test. Those who disliked Ponselle's performance last week did not damn her as a singing artist but rather as a melodramatic actress...