Word: sing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Among the stars on the program will be: Salyedo, the French harpist who will render a few of his own compositions. Salyedo is one of the greatest harp players of the present day, and is famed both in Europe and America. Raphael Diaz, the New York metropolitan tenor, will sing the "Astrologer's Song," from the "Coq d Or," of Rimsky-Korsakoff, and also a selection of Spanish songs. Finally, the Philharmonic will play Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony," Wagner's "Rienze Overture," and Wolf-Ferrais' "Overture to the Secret of Suzanne." Such a program, with possible additions, promises a most...
...Bauer is a very well-known pianist who founded in New York six years ago the famous and unique Beethoven Society, the purpose of which is for the members to assemble at stated intervals to play and sing together for their own pleasure and the accruing artistic benefits. The membership includes such distinguished artists as McCormack, Kieisler, Heifetz and Rachmaninoff. Mr. Baner assisted the Club in a concert in New York last April during the Spring trip...
Thus was Keats inspired to sing when for the first time he saw the Elgin marbles. What must have been their glory when, not as now battered and broken by time and fortune, they adorned the Parthenon, that great temple of the Acropolis which enshrined the gold and ivory statue of Athena...
...wonderfully effective as Turandot, so glinty cold as to send the shivers down 4,000 spines as she shrilled her desire to avenge all men. Giacomo Lauri-Volpi was a loud, adequately heroic Calaf. But there were none of those sweet, curving melodies for either of them to sing, no tender suavities to linger over and fondle. Choruses here and there excelled the earlier Puccini's, but the score as a whole seemed thick, noisy, lacking in coherence, stretched this way and that to cover three acts for which there was insufficient substance. Not the old Puccini...
...wheeled in three great circles above the square. It was apparent that the Marshal retains his heroic stature in the hearts of his people. By way of showing that he is both a Pole and a true cosmopolitan he appointed last week Mlle. Teiko Kiwa, first Japanese to sing the role of Madame Butterfly at the Polish National Opera, to assist President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland in unveiling a statue of Chopin* close to Marshal Pilsudski's residence in Lazienski Park...