Word: pattie
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times, her large, dimpled knees, she freely admitted, trembled on that night. After the first act, they trembled no longer; for the Inglesi made her appear 20 times before the curtain, clapping her long, and even cheering her in their funny, diffident way. Later that evening, the famed Patti told her: "You have won by merit the crown that I have laid aside...
...clap and go away to their clubs or cabarets. But let her be a coloratura, let her sing with no emotion but with brilliance, with coldness, these cold, bright people in their turn give way to a fine frenzy of enthusiasm. Melba- they smothered her under mountains of flowers; Patti-they took her out to supper on their shoulders; Jenny Lind -50 brilliant, chilly young men pulled her carriage up Fifth Avenue. Now Galli-Curci, who recently made her first English appearance before the coldest, the shiniest audience in the land. They did not even wait to hear her sing...
...Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne, Australia. At an auction sale, held from the stage, tickets were sold−some at 100 guineas each. It was Dame Nellie Melba's farewell appearance−Melba, for over 20 years the world's greatest singer, true successor to Patti. The vast audiences went wild with joy, cheered and cheered−and eight carloads of flowers were carried to the stage...
...sooner was the boom for Toti dal Monte started, and her American triumph staged for this Winter, than news sifted through the fog of London that Dusolina Giannini had already staked out an undisputable claim as legitimate successor to Patti. Still more recently there drifts over from Moscow, via the Wolfsohn Musical Bureau, the report that Maria Kurenko, ex-criminal-law-student, will put all comers out of the running when she arrives in the U. S. in November. She has paved her way with reports of unbridled enthusiasms evoked by her appearances in Kharkov, Moscow, Riga, Helsingfors, Paris...
...Spalding is also a musician of wide experience. His early studies were under the leading violinists of New York, Florence and Bologna, and his first public appearance was in Paris with Adelina Patti. Later, as one of the soloists with the New York Symphony Orchestra he played to audiences in every part of Europe on the first European concert tour made by any American orchestra...