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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago. Almost the only old-time top-fee artist definitely to hold his own is Violinist Fritz Kreisler. In the U. S. as the world over he stays the greatest drawing card. Second to him in the U. S. this year have presumably been Negro Tenor Roland Hayes and the Dancer Argentina. Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff also commands top prices, full houses, but he gives few concerts now. Young Yehudi Menuhin is in his class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Market | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

Rosamend Johnson, baritone and planist, and Tayler Gordon, tenor, will give a recital of negro spirituals on Monday night at 8 o'clock in the Harvard Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEGRO SPIRITUALS AT UNION MONDAY NIGHT | 2/7/1930 | See Source »

...years ago half the U. S. was humming a teasing melody called "The Song of India." Many a wailing tenor and shrilling soprano delivered it in cinema-houses and on radio programs. Jazzmen syncopated it successfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sadko | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...Particularly striking was the banqueting scene where bearded, bright-coated merchants sat bibbing under a queerly-angled, vivid roof; the scene on the quay where gabbling townspeople watched the crack-brained Sadko fishing for his fortune; the bottom of the sea with its fish-folk orgy. Of the performers, Tenor Edward Johnson as Sadko sang sternly to the merchants, but beguilingly to the sea princess. Many in the audience reflected that he alone of all great male opera singers has the grace desirable for so fanciful a part. Others, however, wished that he could have achieved more of the heroic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sadko | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

AIDA, PUR TI RIVEGGO and LATRA FORESTI VERGINI (Victor, $2.50)-For those limited to a single record, this version of the Nile duet has the advantage of better singing by Famed Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg and Famed Tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: January Records | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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