Word: sing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marion Nevada Talley, 21, buxom, sweet-voiced soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, openly broke last week with her concert manager, Francis C. Coppicus. He is said to have told the public that Miss Talley was going to retire from concert singing for one year in order to study, that she had earned $334,892 from her concerts during the last two years (in addition to her Metropolitan Opera salary). Miss Talley resented this "gross breach of confidence," said: "In order to get rid of him [Coppicus], because I was dissatisfied with the work he was doing...
...Mary Garden do great and voluptuous acts of rage and excitement; satisfied in this desire, they decided that she had tilted a cracked mirror so that its faulty images could be forgotten as it caught and reflected her own glory. They came again to hear other singers sing better...
...Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock, 120 members of the club will sing the following program at the Young People's Concert in Symphony Hall: Christmas Song Holst Le Miracle de Saint Nicholas French Folk Song Les Anges dans nos Campagnes French Folk Song Two Choruses from "Requiem" Faure Agnus Dei In Paradisum Cantate Domino Hasler O Sacrum Convivium Viadana Wassail Song English Folk Song Gently Johnny English Folk Song The Nightingale Weelkes The Campbells are Coming Scottish Folk Song La-Bas, Sur ces Montagnes French Canadian Folk Song Choruses from "The Yeomen of the Guard" Sullivan
Giving its best stars for the performance, the management will have Mary Garden, noted diva of many past performances, take the part of Louise. The honest and conservative mother, who disapproves of her daughter's marriage with Julian, a poet, will be portrayed by Maria Claissens. Rene Malson will sing the part of the young lover and Vanni-Marcoux is scheduled to appear as the father...
...Nation agrees but points out that even at Yale faculty members was prolix with superlatives and too often lose touch with the active world of letters. Time was, recalls the magazine, when a professor of English at New Haven "snubbed the most vital living authors in order to sing in extravagant terms the praises of an innocuous and now almost forgotten novelist, Henry Sydner Harrison". And the years which have passed since the author of "Queed" was popular have brought equally significant and disappointing parallels...