Word: mezzo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born. U.S. readers, scanning the list, wondered. The six: Leone Krause (dramatic soprano) Chase Baromeo (basso) Olga Kargau (soprano) Elinor Mario (mezzo-soprano) Lucille Meusel (mezzo-soprano) Delia Samoiloff (soprano) It was not until they had read further to the effect that Miss Krause is the daughter of a Michigan clergyman; that Mr. Baromeo is a native of Ann Arbor, a graduate of the University of Michigan; that Miss Kargau went through a Chicago high school; that Miss Mario was trained for opera in San Francisco; that Miss Meusel is the daughter of a Wisconsin traveling salesman-that U.S. readers...
Carmela Ponselle, a mezzo-soprano whose vaudeville career was cut short when a critic discovered that her sister Rosa, with whom she was training in the two-a-day, had "the greatest dramatic-soprano voice in the world...
Thursday evening in the same place a concert by Jean Nolan, mezzo-soprano. Varied pieces from eighteenth century airs to Irish folk-songs fill her program...
Thursday evening in Jordan Hall, a recital by Crystal Waters, mezzo-soprano...
...first part of their program, up to the Moussorgsky number, was very far from ideally sung. Granting all the difficulties of the concert hall, there seems no good reason why otherwise excellent singing should be marred by bad lapses from pure intonation, which reached their height in the mezzo solo, "What...