Word: sing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Citizen Genet. "Louis Capet," said The National Gazette, "has lost his Caput." In theatres, audiences rose to sing Ca Ira and the Marseillaise. Gentlemen everywhere drank toasts to France. How they welcomed Citizen Genet, Ambassador of the Republic! There was even a rumor that he was bringing the lost Dauphin with him in a trunk. He made the unpardonable error, however, of mistaking the voice of the people for the voice of the Government. The President soon set him right when Genet announced to him that his administration was being criticized. "Washington simply told me," wrote he, "that...
...London, Bayreuth and Berlin. Manhattan welcomed her. After a number of successful seasons, she retired, with becoming dignity and an nounced that her future performances would be limited to concert engagements. Last week, after a concert in Kansas City, she divulged to pressmen that she, now 64, would sing again at the Metropolitan. Director Gatti-Casazza, she prettily confessed, had heard a recent recital of hers in Manhattan, forthwith offered her a contract for the season of 1925-26. Said...
...happy as a child. . . . Think of it! Singing almost 50 years before the public and still able to do my Erda, my Magdalena and maybe my Fricka next winter. You know I am 64 years old and I learned a long time ago not to do more than I am able. And I am able to sing those roles again. Isn't it wonderful...
...another distinguished guest will be Charles P. Curtis '83, who has recently been appointed a fellow of the University. The others will be President Lowell, Dean Bacon of the Sophomore class, and B. L. Kilgour '27, president of the class. Meyer Cogan '21 and R. P. Bullard '24 will sing and the program will be concluded with moving pictures...
...last concert of the trip will take place at Cornell University, where on Saturday night the club will sing in Bailey Hall...