Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fifth annual festival of the Westchester County Choral Society; in White Plains, N. Y. Soloists: Tenor Edward Johnson, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Pianist Percy Grainger...
...admission were gawking excitedly at the entrance of three princesses into the Royal Box-Princess Mary and her cousins Princess Helena Victoria and Princess Marie Louise.* Conductor Bruno Walter arose and swept together the first vigorous strains of the Meistersinger overture. Then were displayed the tight-toned "Walther" of Tenor Rudolf Laubenthal; the homely, bourgeois "Sachs" of Baritone Friedrich Schoor; the heavy, smoothly sung "Eva" of Lotte Lehmann, important soprano of the Vienna Staatsoper. London's opera, although on the upgrade so far as quality is concerned, is still of shorter duration than that of most capital cities. This...
Among the products of the widespread U. S. yearning for a new national anthem was a $3,000 prize competition sponsored by Mrs. Florence Brooks-Aten of Manhattan, philanthropist, instigator of the Brooks-Bright Foundation (for the exchange of British and U. S. schoolboys). Last week the judges, Tenor Lambert Murphy, Musical Writer Sigmund Spaeth, Poet Witter Bynner, Baritone Reinald Werrenrath, announced that the best anthem had been submitted by Musical Writer Frederick Herman Martens (words) of Rutherford, N. J., and Pianist Leo Ornstein (music), that they would divide the prize. Final stanza of their anthem, entitled America...
London, where from April 28 to July 4 opera will be given at Covent Garden. Soprano Rosa Ponselle and Tenor Beniamino Gigli are among the artists engaged...
Last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House there was an air of finality to the way the curtain fell on the grim ending of Carmen. The claque (house-paid clappers) and a handful of enthusiasts flocked to the front, shouted bravos at Mezzo-Soprano Ina Bourskaya and Tenor Antonin Trantoul. The big asbestos curtain hushed all that and the Metropolitan's regular season was ended. Supplementary Holy Week performances were scheduled to follow. But uppermost were plans for the annual spring tour. This year's route and repertoire...