Word: tetrazzini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leslie Carter was Zaza and Ada Rehan was the talk of the town as Sweet Nell of Old Drury. At the opera it was the "Golden Age." Sembrich was singing and Fames, Ternina, Melba and the de Reszkés. It was before the time of Caruso, Fremstad and Tetrazzini. It was way back in the year of the now grandmotherly Louise Homer and of the Viennese Fritzi Scheff...
...Story. A little girl sat in the gallery at a Tetrazzini concert, her black pigtails rigid with excitement. The colossal colorature took her finale with a flourish, kissed her hands to her public, tossed back its flowers, and the little girl sat spellbound. When she arrived home (Lawrence, Mass.) finally she made a very serious announcement, that she too would become a great singer. The grocer father took no notice. There were seven other Jacobos to feed. Why should little Clara get such notions ? But she kept her dreams, left school before she was 15, worked days in a textile...
...Gallo (above) has Bach and Paganini as precedents for his precocity. Chopin, Liszt and Rimsky-Korsakov were first famed as nine-year-olds. Mendelssohn, Schubert, Stravinsky and Boomfield-Zeisler waited until they were 10 before startling the music world; Beethoven, Saint-Saens and Florence Easton, until they were 11. Tetrazzini trilled at 12. Jenny Lind, Pietro Mascagni, Percy Grainger, Marcella Sembrich were obscure until...
Married. Luisa Tetrazzini, 52, diva; to one Pietro Vernatti, 32, her onetime tenant; in the Town Hall of Florence, Italy...
...stage for 15 years. His flame experiment was the result of thousands of "fan" letters he received after a radio lecture last month. He can "sing" a note so high that it is inaudible to the human ear. Such a sound can be made with a violin but no Tetrazzini, no Galli-Curci, could make it. With these notes topping his vocal scale Mr. Kellogg has learned to imitate and even improve upon the songs of birds; to imitate insect calls. His phonograph records, including a choral effect obtained by playing many records into one, are well known and remarkable...