Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trials for the University Glee Club open to all University members will be held at 7 o'clock Monday, Tuesday and Thursday nights in Sever 11. Dr. A. T. Davison '06, director of the Glee Club, will test all new candidates by having them sing the scale. It is the policy of the Club not to make the trials difficult since it aims to take on all those whose voices have any possibilities of development. These who are accepted will be retained until the quartet trials early in December...
...Jeritza's contract with the Metropolitan allowed her to sing in Vienna during the off-season period. Jeritza returned from the amazing triumph of her first New York season, and during the closing weeks of opera in Vienna that Spring sang once more alongside of her old companion star, Piccaver. There was trouble now. The tenor held that the soprano, madly flushed with her New York success, had grown haughty and overbearing. She adopted the grand manner with the other singers, assumed dictatorship over the management of the company, called off rehearsals at her whim, delayed beginnings of performances, made...
Last Spring Jeritza returned after her second New York season, and Vienna greeted her with a tremendous ovation. Her feud with the tenor assumed larger proportions. The first excitement came when he refused to sing a performance of La Tosca with her in May. The composer, Puccini, had come to Vienna to direct his Manon Lescaut. He took a hand in the disturbance, effected a partial reconciliation between the angry singers. They appeared in La Tosca together...
...dramatic soprano of the Chicago Opera Company. This, of course, is a distinguished honor and one well deserved by the lady of the great ringing voice. Time was when the season's list of singers at La Scala held the elite of the world's vocalists. To sing at the celebrated opera house of Milan was a crowning honor; to be selected for a very important premier, an election to Parnassus. But since the War vocal things have gone badly all over Europe, and Italy (while comparatively in very good shape) has not avoided harm. The best Italian...
...because of the small value of a million paper marks, and in consequence has tried France, asking offers of French managers for appearances. The French, who are ready to grow angry about anything, grew angry at this. On a previous occasion when it was said that Farrar was to sing in France, there was talk of a boycott against...