Word: mezzos
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...tall girl with dark brown braids and a mezzo-soprano voice stepped out on the Metropolitan Opera's gilt-framed stage for the first time. Making her debut as Fricka in Die Walküre, Blanche Thebom (pronounced thee-bum), 25, threw Manhattan's normally low-pressure music critics into fits of excitement: "Remarkable! ... a natural . . . strikingly handsome . . . exceptional vocal endowments...
...graduation he was torn between music and law. He plunged into both. When a famed voice teacher, Percy Rector Stephens, encouraged him to continue his voice training in New York, he saw an even more interesting opportunity. The Professor's secretary, a gifted mezzo-soprano, Frances Eileen Hutt, of Sapulpa, Okla., was also going to New York...
Following the regular meeting, the group was entertained by Miss Anne Talbot, mezzo soprano, accompanted on the piane by Mrs. Reginald Boardman...
...program for next week includes the business meeting on Tuesday at 2.30 o'clock, at the Union, where Miss Ann Talbot, mezzo soprano, will sing, and a bridge-tea on Thursday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock, also at the Union...
Kiepura that night was a Don José without restraint. But the score, as the curtain fell: no knockouts. The judge's decision (by Critic Claudia Cassidy): "Miss Glade was supple, audacious, and sure of herself, singing in the wild mezzo that can range from voluminously lovely to something as fuzzy...