Word: talented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...below that of the numberless performances of this opera that have been given at the Metropolitan, but the 38 citizens had come to hear basso Joseph T. MacPherson sing the part of the King, and Joseph T. MacPherson was absent. Four years ago Basso MacPherson sang in a home talent benefit show to buy bats and balls for a sandlot ball-team on which he played. Singing teachers heard him, advised him to cultivate his voice. He gave a concert in Atlanta. Otto Kahn, visiting there, heard him, gave him a year's contract with the Metropolitan. The King...
...what success the music wins is due mainly to Conductor Giorgio Polacco. Two decades ago he came to the U. S. from Italy, lavished his talent on scattered engagements. In 1915 he substituted for Toscanini as chief conductor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan. Later he was called to assist the great Cleofonte Campanini as director of the Chicago Opera, married Edith Mason, singer. Now he makes music out of even La Cena Delle Beffe...
...Pierian Sodality Orchestra seems to have the talent necessary to produce a successful concert," declared Miss Ethel Leginska to a CRIMSON representative yesterday. Miss Leginska first won the plaudits of the musical world as an accomplished concert planist, and has since acquired world-wide fame as the first woman to conduct a large concert orchestra. At present she is training the Pierian Orchestra for its Brattle Hall concert on December 17, at which the principal numbers will be "La Deluge", by C. Saint Saers, and Berioz's "Hungarian March...
...production disappoints. Irene Bordoni, brilliant, charming in her own, more Aphroditian sphere, as a young man, indifferent. Masculine naiveté differs from the feminine: it exacts of an actress a talent at least equal to Maude Adams'. The lines have either suffered in translation or the good people of London and Paris, in their enthusiasm for glorifying Mozart, read a great deal into them. One or the other may explain why the play succeeded on the Continent while failing to stir the North American emotions. The music by Reynaldo Hahn is undistinguished...
Stark Young is only 45, so that only by hearsay could he have known these relatives of his at "Heaven Trees" before the Civil War. But his keen understanding and prodigious talent for transcribing subtle values have made of them, with no particular plot or thesis, as wholly real and charming a group of personalities as you are likely to meet in many a year...