Word: sung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Comprising nine scenes in three acts, the libretto "will be a sort of operatic verse, or a sort of loose blank verse, in that the words may be sung." It will not be in the grand style of Wagnerian music-drama. Composer Taylor started work with a Wagner-type opera in mind, but found the German form somehow did not naturally evolve. Was it especially "American?" he was asked. Replied he: "Perhaps some of the rhythm might be deemed so, but that is for the critics. However, I wasn't attempting to make it such...
...descendant and namesake of the Renaissance Lucrezia. In Valencia, Spain, where she was born, the stage was considered an undignified profession for an aristocrat. Lucrezia went to Italy, changed her name, won fame overnight as "Manon Lescaut." She has gone back to Spain many times since then, never once sung there in public...
...Soprano Olga Didur, daughter of Basso Adamo Didur, also a Metropolitan singer; French Coloratura Lily Pons; French Tenor Georges Thill to replace Tenor Antonin Trantoul whose début last winter was undistinguished; Contralto Faina Petrova of the Moscow Grand Opera; Baritone Claudio Frigerio of Paterson, N. J., who has sung in Italian opera houses; Norwegian Basso Ivar Frithjof Andresen, famed throughout Europe for his Wagner...
...praise of Branch Banking, as potent a reducer of banks as mergers and failures, was sung last week to the House Committee on Banking & Currency by Charles Edwin Mitchell of National City. The small bank, he maintained, is more efficient as part of an ably directed system than as an independent unit. He pooh-poohed the bogey of a financial octopus with: "Banking is not a business which can be monopolized...
...Club will be represented by a picked chorus of 20 men. Following supper, which will be served from 6 to 8 o'clock, the singers will present a short program chosen from this year's repertoire. Selections by Sullivan, Brahms, and Coleridge-Taylor will be sung. D. A. MacKinnon '26 will conduct the chorus...