Word: sing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sigrid Onegin, contraito of the Metropolitan Opera Company, is the soloist on the program. She is a new-comer in the operatic world, having stepped into the limelight by her concerts in the past two years. She will sing two groups of songs. "Der Feuerriter" (The Fire Congerer) by Hugo Wolf and "Epiphanias" (Epiphany) also by Wolf are her two most interesting numbers, according to her own statement in a recent letter to the Glee Club manager. She further added that this will be the first singing of "Epiphanias" in America. I Since Christ Our Lord, from "The Seven Words...
...recent book* tells an extraordinary story about this extraordinary woman. One afternoon years ago the director of the Metropolitan Opera House asked her hesitatingly whether she could sing in Die Walkürie that night. He was badly in need of her services. She said: "Why not?" That evening she sang as an aerial Valkyrie?that is to say, suspended in the iron ring. Next evening her ninth child was born. A few nights later she was again in the iron ring singing...
There was in the conservatory in the Lombard city a man of middle life and of some wealth, a tenor. He had been studying for years with that grand heroism that you find in aspirants who have never contrived to sing a decent note. No manager, even of the smallest company, would give him. a debut. In the Spring a number of students held a confabulation at the end of which they went to the tenor, told him that the managers were conspiring against him, and that they, his friends, were going to get up a performance...
...evening an approprate entertainment has been arranged. C. T. Leonard 1G will give a piano solo, Miss Adele Dowling of the Emerson College of Oratory will give two readings, and Philip Walker '25 will perform some tricks of sleight-of-hand. Also a number of Glee Club members will sing and two vocal solo numbers are being arranged. Last year more than 100 students attended the reception...
When she received word that, willy-nilly, she must sing Dinorah, she telegraphed Mr. Insull...