Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mme. Melba...
...Mme Melba is the person who travelled through the deserts of Arabia...
...Mme. Nina Koshetz of the Chicago Opera Co. sang a remarkably interesting group of songs. For year we have heard Lieder singers and cantatrices, but only recently has the wealth of Russian vocal music been disclosed to us. Mme. Koshetz struggled bravely against a disagreeable attack of laryngitis, and she won out, for by the time she reached the two most important songs by Prokoifew and Moussorgsky, her tone was clear and of a beautiful resonant quality. How fascinating these Russians are with their charming simplicity and vivid imagination...
Prokoflew is little known in this country outside of his opera "The Love for the Three Oranges" and two piano concertos, due to the unfavorable condition of Russian music publishing houses. In Paris his reputation ranks with that of Strawinsky, and his "Song Without Words" written for Mme. Koshetz seems to bear this statement out. In the weird middle section with its dissonant rustling of strings, which would tax the pitch of any singer, the voice rang true. The Moussorgsky "Dance and Revery" from "The Fair of Sorotchinsk" was sung with great dash and vigor, although Liadow's orchestration...
From New York the members of the Sodality proceeded to Washington, D. C., where at the National Theatre the third and final concert was given. Mme. Stanley again assisted as soloist...