Word: melba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MELODIES AND MEMORIES-Nellie Melba- Doran...
...voice, her study with Marchesi, eccentric old lady who could not tolerate Nellie's one winter dress and would not let her wash her hair for fear of taking cold. There are more memories than melodies. There are tales of de buts and ovations, of how Peche Melba got its name, of the War work that made her a Dame of the British Empire. There are tales, of practical jokes, most of them expensive, many of them thread bare, which, if one may judge by the space allotted them, must have seemed to Melba excruciatingly funny. There is nothing...
Jeritza was delighted with her "triumph". In that first London audience were Nellie Melba, Florence Easton, and the veteran Jeritza had sung with so often, Antonio Scotti. Without a doubt, they knew a triumph when they heard one. Without a doubt they stopped backstage before going home. And the conductor, there was another thing: Conductor Sergio Failonig, prize pupil of Toscanini, who attempts to emulate his master by doing without the scores. He got the sack for appearing "not to have gained the confidence of the artists." They sent for Conductor Leopold Mugnone, the Neapolitan, a great favorite in London...
Voice Pictures, A photographic process made visible the breath of genius that distinguishes opera singers from the bulls of Bashan. A mechanically perfect singer, resting precisely on every note, would give a chart in straight lines. McCormack, Case, Melba, . Farrar and peers, singing Annie Laurie, produced charts in wavy lines, undulated by pitch and intensity-Dr. C. E. Seashore, Iowa State University...
...fine frenzy of enthusiasm, they lift their eyebrows, clap and go away to their clubs or cabarets. But let her be a coloratura, let her sing with no emotion but with brilliance, with coldness, these cold, bright people in their turn give way to a fine frenzy of enthusiasm. Melba- they smothered her under mountains of flowers; Patti-they took her out to supper on their shoulders; Jenny Lind -50 brilliant, chilly young men pulled her carriage up Fifth Avenue. Now Galli-Curci, who recently made her first English appearance before the coldest, the shiniest audience in the land. They...