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...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...
...Gladys Swarthout, young and comely Kansas City mezzo-soprano, donned drab grey for her Metropolitan debut, smeared her face with ash-colored chalk, sang the role of the blind mother in La Gioconda. Her acting, typically operatic, was credible. Her voice, though sometimes unsteady, was agreeable...
Three singers made debuts during the Metropolitan's first week. Mezzo-soprano Eleanor La Mance of Jacksonville, Fla., a thin-legged, hollow-voiced girl, was "a musician" in the opening Manon Lescaut, sang her one aria nervously. Alfredo Gandolfi, who might have been any pot-bellied Italian tenor, was "a sergeant...
Four U. S. singers will make their Metropolitan debuts: 1) Santa Biondo, lyric soprano, born in Palermo, brought to New Haven, Conn., as a child, lately a member of the San Carlo and American Opera Companies; 2) Eleanor La Mance, Jacksonville mezzo-soprano, well known in small Italian opera houses; 3) Gladys Swarthout, Kansas City mezzo-soprano, formerly of the Chicago Opera; 4) Edward Ransome, tenor, born in Canada, U. S. citizen, known in Italy as Edoardo di Renzo...