Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than 60 years old, Mme. Schumann-Heink gave a recital (in Baltimore) the other night?a recital of superb beauty. The passage of time seems scarcely to have dimmed her great voice. If you ask her the reason for it, she will tell you it is the result of living naturally. " I have never liked anything artificial," she will tell you. " Look at me. I do not use rouge. Certainly I need beautifiers more than most women. But I live by nature...
...Insull said: "I hope Mme. Galli-Curci will exercise a woman's prerogative and change her mind...
...Mme. Landowska plays the harpsichord, instrument of an older time and more fastidious taste. She played the Handel Concerto in B Flat for harpsichord and orchestra and then the Bach Concerto for harpischord unsupported, and finally the Mozart Concerto in E Flat for piano and orchestra. Four recalls gave convincing evidence of her triumph...
Miguel Fleta, of Spanish and South American fame, was the important addition to the list of singers. As Cavaradossi in Tosca, he was received with an applause which Caruso might have envied. To Mme. Jeritza's hat and fine feathers he was a courteous if not impassioned lover...
...same afternoon Mme. Onegin, widely admired contraito of the Metropolitan Opera will sing in Symphony...