Word: melba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave ?5,500 ($27,500), the income from which is used to invite "eminent clergymen from other parts of the world" to preach at Scots. Preacher Poling allowed Scots to pay only his traveling expenses. Scots Church was built by David Mitchell, father of the late great soprano Nellie Melba, who used to sing in the choir...
Beethoven's Flame. Famous exponents of Chaminade's music included Nellie Melba and John Philip Sousa, who liked to play the tiny piano pieces in full brass-band arrangements. At the height of Chaminade's vogue, in the early 1900s, her U.S. feminine admirers had formed more than 200 "Chaminade Clubs." Her Scarf Dance ended by selling over five million copies...
...also mentioned the fact that four of my main roles in opera-Mimi, Tosca, Manon and Louise-have certainly been sung better by other people. Do you mean Melba as Mimi, Muzio as Tosca, Sibyl Sanderson as Manon, and Mary Garden as Louise? Some of those people never sang at the Metropolitan, but they did create the golden memories of the past...
...bitta").* The flying Yorkshireman deserts her for a floating English blonde, a loose, friendly creature with a voice like a drain. Jeannie consoles herself with a graceful, sponging Count, who mistakes her for the Bank of England, escorts her through her favorite viands (caviar, chicken mousse, Russian salad, peach Melba and champagne at one gulp), postprandially proposes marriage. In the long run, penniless Jeannie and her hard-collared compatriot get together. "Och, it was only the way he kissed my hand," she wistfully explains about the Count...
...singer, Lillian Russell might have cut a minor swath at the Metropolitan. Trained in opera from infancy, she claimed to be able to negotiate high Cs eight times a performance, seven performances a week. But when Nellie Melba told Lillian to stick to the music halls, where her reign was absolute, she took the advice...