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Following the probing harmonic and contrapuntal explorations of Gesualdo, the madrigals of Luca Merenzio sounded a bit parochial and stay-at-home. Yet his two villanellas for three voices offered a great and rarely heard texture: soprano, counter-tenor, and basso. (Counter-tenor Carlo Tosti's sense of humor was, incidentally, crucial for the success of several of the Banchieri and Marenzio madrigals...
...Deanna's loud, dramatic-soprano progress, to the tune of Tosti's Goodbye, through the crowded public passages of a tony Manhattan hotel...
People everywhere have heard Nellie Melba sing "Home Sweet Home," "Comin' Thro' the Rye," Tosti's "Goodbye." Opera crowds have seen her as Mimi in La Bohème, Violetta in La Traviata, Marguerite in Faust, Gilda in Rigoletto, Lucia, Juliette. The pure and springlike quality of her voice established her as Patti's greatest successor. It lasted her well through middle age because she used it so intelligently, won her triumphs for 40 years. Melba's life was as glamorous as the prima donna of fiction. She made her American debut at the Metropolitan in 1893 five days after famed...
...stood for a hundred triumphs, for gay, gay Monte Carlo and her début there a quarter of a century ago, for Russian Grand Dukes and Princesses, the warm scent of orange blossoms, tiny balls spinning in a great casino, the great Caruso who was her Rodolfo, Tosti making great goggle eyes from the front row. It, too, had been the first Covent Garden performance after the War, when a shabby tweed audience replaced the pompous black. Yes, La Bohème was good. But so was Romeo et Juliette, which she had studied with Gounod himself-Gounod with...
...clock by Dr. A. T. Davison, assited by Miss Ouida Cefrey, contralto. The following program will be presented: 1. Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Bach Dr. Davison. 2. "To the Angels," Zardo Miss Cefrey. 3. (a) Menuet Gothique, Boellman (b) Andante Cantabile, Tschaikowski Dr. Davison. 4. Prayer, Tosti Miss Cefrey. 5. (a) Elevation in A-flat, Guilmant (b) Intermezzo, Bonnet Dr. Davison. 6. Pilgrim Song, Tschaikowski Miss Cefrey. 7. Toccata (Fifth Symphony), Widor Dr. Davison...