Word: mephisto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chopin Etude Chopin Mlle Novaes 3. Adieu, Sweet Amarillis Wilbye Vieille Priere Bouddhique Boulanger Now is the Time of Christymas Bax (Flute-obligato by Georges Laurent) Choral Hymns from the Rig-Veda Holst Hymn to Manas--Hymn to Soma --To Agni The Harvard Glee Club 4. El Albaicin Albeniz Mephisto Valse Liszt Mlle, Novaes 5. Pirate Song Gilbert...
...Challapin, sang before a large and wildly-enthusiastic audience. His programme was as follows: First group: "Aleko", Rachmaninoff; "Yermak Tinofelevitch". Ippolitoff-Ivanoff; "Die beiden Grenadiere", Schumann. Second group: "We parted haughtily", Dargomizhsky; "Pretty Lady" (from "Don Juan"), Mozart: "When the king went forth to war", Koeneman; Volga Boat-song; "Mephisto's Song of the Flea", Mouseorgsky...
...outstanding numbers on the programme were the aria from "Don Juan" and Moussorgsky's "Mephisto's Song of the Flea". "The two Grenadiers" was well done, particularly the stirring ending where the "Marseillaise" is introduced. The Volga Boat-song, taken at a rather fast tempo, was given an authoritative interpretation. Chaliapin answered the thunderous applause at the end of each group with several encores. Perhaps the best of these was the "Inquesta tomba" of Beethoven. Both of the assisting artists, a planist and a 'cellist, served as a good contrast for the impeecable basso of the Metropolitan...