Word: mezzo-soprano
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Canadian-born Mezzo-soprano Jeanne Gordon, formerly of the Metropolitan Opera, was added to the victims of intensive reducing. Contralto Gordon lost 30 lb. in three weeks, then collapsed and was taken to a sanatorium...
Last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House there was an air of finality to the way the curtain fell on the grim ending of Carmen. The claque (house-paid clappers) and a handful of enthusiasts flocked to the front, shouted bravos at Mezzo-Soprano Ina Bourskaya and Tenor Antonin Trantoul. The big asbestos curtain hushed all that and the Metropolitan's regular season was ended. Supplementary Holy Week performances were scheduled to follow. But uppermost were plans for the annual spring tour. This year's route and repertoire...
...will present the "Song of Fate", followed on Monday by "A German Requiem," and on Tuesday by the "Liebeslieder". In the final performance on Wednesday night the Glee club will appear alone in "Rhapsody." Among the artists who are taking part as soloists in the festival are Margaret Matzenauer, mezzo-soprano; Arthur Schnabel, pianist; Jeannette Vreeland, soprano; and Fraser Gange, baritone...
...Harvard and Radcliffe choruses, under the direction of A.T. Davison '06, and G.W. Woodworth '24, will be heard in the choral numbers. Margaret Matzenauer, mezzo-soprano, Artur Schnabel, pianist, Jeannette Vreeland, soprano, and Fraser Gange, baritone, will be soloists, while the Burgin String Quartet, organized and conducted by the concert-master of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will play Tuesday evening...
...Archibald Davison and Wallace Woodworth, will assist the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a festival of the orchestral, choral, and chamber music of Johannes Brahms at Symphony Hall, in Boston, from March 21 to 26 inclusive. Also assisting will be the Burgin String Quartet, Arthur Schnabel, pianist; Margaret Matzenauer, mezzo-soprano; Jeannette Vreeland, soprano and Fraser Gange, baritone...