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Germany and Austria have pronounced Giannini a great dramatic artist. Toscanini chose her to sing in Falstaff at the Salzburg Festival last summer (TIME, Sept. 2), chose her again for his General Motors broadcast and for his forthcoming performance of the Verdi Requiem. But Father Giannini waited until last week to form his own opinion, then said: "I always think my Dusolina, she has a very nice voice. Now I believe she acts very good...
...Negro schools and churches. In 1930 she gambled on a trip to Germany, studied intensively for a few months, finally hired a hall for $500. Critics then pronounced her a full-fledged artist, began to heap superlatives on her voice. Thereafter she toured widely in Europe. At the Salzburg Festival last summer Critic Herbert F. Peyser of the New York Times wrote of her as "one of the greatest living singers." Even with such praise she has remained levelheaded, happiest when with her own people. She could have been roundly feted if she had chosen to remain in Manhattan last...
...Sunday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Others first knew him as the husky young member of the Class of 1924 who soloed with the Yale Glee Club. All were aware of the name he had made for himself in Berlin, Vienna and at the Salzburg Festival under Conductor Arturo Toscanini. Nor did his old friends seem disappointed in his Metropolitan debut. They cheered him and whistled as if at a football game. But his performance, all told, was not that compelling. He acted competently both as the aged philosopher and as the rejuvenated romantic. He sang agreeably except...
With himself as guest conductor, several of his latest arrangements and compositions were enthusiastically received in Munich and Salzburg. These scores aroused favorable comment in this country when played by the Philadelphia Symphony concert Orchestra last summer...
Starting the week after Henley, the Long Vac Term goes on for roughly six weeks. But one may stay for two, three or four as one likes, and it is common to hear an undergraduate say: "I'm fed up with this place. Tomorrow I'm off to Salzburg." Off he goes, with the blessings of his tutor and supervisor...