Word: sopranoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Borden Harriman, Dr. and Mrs. Jason Noble Pierce (the President's minister), Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Rinehart, Governor and Mrs. Trumbull of Connecticut. Afterwards, seated on gilded chairs in the East Room, the guests were regaled with the notes of Alberto Salvi (harpist) and Miss Anna Case (soprano...
Michael Bohnen, big German bass, made his first appearance of the season in a thrilling performance of Der Freischuetz, Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. It had been chosen for the début of Elizabeth Kandt, German lyric soprano, who throughout the performance conducted herself without distinction...
Ethel Leginska, in a velveteen dress, with a puff of wiry hair spreading a determined aureole around her pale face, appeared, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra as pianist, conductor, composer. Critics agreed that her suite, "Six Nursery Rhymes for Soprano and Small Orchestra," was amusing and adept; that the 85 gentlemen of the orchestra conducted her, rather than she them; that she is a brilliant pianist...
Carmela Ponselle, a mezzo-soprano whose vaudeville career was cut short when a critic discovered that her sister Rosa, with whom she was training in the two-a-day, had "the greatest dramatic-soprano voice in the world...
Dorothea Fisher, Pennsylvania-Dutch soprano from Allentown...