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...hear a person sing who had been a "servant" in his family. In Minneapolis Fremstad gave her first formal concert, earned enough to go to Manhattan where the late Frederick Bristol gave her lessons in return for which she played the accompaniments for all his other pupils. As a soloist at St. Patrick's Cathedral she made enough to go to Europe, where she studied with Lilli Lehmann. She was determined to be a dramatic soprano but when her funds were exhausted she heard of a contralto vacancy at the Cologne Opera, applied for the job, rose rapidly thereafter...
Gladys Swarthout made her debut at the age of 13 at a school recital. The audience included wealthy Kansas City friends who offered to finance her musical education. Thereafter she was a soloist in a Kansas City church, a student at the Bush Conservatory in Chicago where she also sang in Balaban & Katz theatres, a soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony, a minor member of the Chicago Civic Opera Company. After a summer in Europe and three seasons with the Ravinia Opera Company in the U. S., she joined the Metropolitan in 1929, made her debut as the blind mother...
...various advertisements. Be they all glorious or not, and whatever their number, they can make a powerful lot of noise, particularly in the trumpet section. However, some of the arrangements are excellent, as is the harmonizing vocalization. This department would like to recommend to your careful consideration a soloist with a flower in her hair and a nice set of pipes (not the music-goes-round-and-round vocalist, who, incidentally, is not bad at her stunt, if you can still stand the song.) Sevitsky and the Elida Ballet make their usual enjoyable contributions to the entertainment...
Featuring Leonard Bernstein '39 as piano soloist, the Pierian Sodality will present the third concert of its current season on Sunday evening at Longwood Towers under the direction of Malcolm H. Holmes...
Bernstein will play a group of short pieces including the "Etude and Nocturne in F major" by Chopin and the Rhapsody No. 13" by Liszt. Soloist with the Boston Schools Symphony Orchestra for two years, Bernstein presented the premiere performance of Joseph Wagner's Piano Concerto under the direction of the composer. He was the prize winner in Fabien Sevitzky's piano contest in 1933, and has recently finished a sponsored series of recitals on the radio. He is planning to concentrate in Music...