Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the late great John Pierpont Morgan banished from New York 25 years ago, the great golden-haired Maria Jeritza last week brought back?almost. In Europe the role of Salome in Richard Strauss's opera is one of the most celebrated of the many which Jeritza sings. For ten years she has wanted above all things to sing it in New York. But the Metropolitan Opera Company would not permit Jeritza or any other soprano to behave like Salome on its respectable stage, to shed seven veils one after the other in the notorious dance before King Herod...
...Jeritza bowed to the thunder of applause at the end. her smile might well have been tinged with cynical amusement. The Metropolitan, hard-pressed for cash, had dropped her from its roster last spring (TIME, May 30). When the Musicians' Symphony came begging her to sing for their jobless cause, she agreed?on one condition, that she should sing Salome. Agreed; and forthwith Jeritza persuaded her friend Composer Strauss to prepare a special concert version for her. to waive his big royalty so that she. along with Baritone Nelson Eddy (Jochanaan) and Conductor Fritz Reiner, could give last week...
With Salome over and no Metropolitan engagements to follow, Jeritza again astounded the music world and gratified her irrepressible nature by going to Boston to sing Cavalleria Rusticana and Lohengrin with Fortune Gallo's itinerant San Carlo Opera Company...
...Quixote in French and English. The picture was taken in mountainlands high above Nice and the natives are still talking about the rueful old man who rode about on a ribby white horse which he insisted on flitting each day. In his U. S. concerts Chaliapin will sing three songs written for his cinema by Jacques Ibert, pupil of Maurice Ravel...
When the Vagabond goes to the Music. Building this afternoon at four-thirty to sing medieval church music, he will rejoice to imitate the careless abandon with which the uncontrollable monks sang their parts. He will feel deep gratitude to the men whose refusal to obey the binding rules of the church made possible the development of the materials of modern music and prepared the way immediately for Palestinian and Bach. He will be grateful, too, that the discordance of the medieval descants will keep his neighbor from noticing it too easily when the Vagabond sings...