Word: trilled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buggy-couples wooed each other with "Connaistu le Pays?" sweet lyric by Ambroise Thomas. As old Dobbin ambled along the moon-patched road He would lean his head against her leg-of-mutton sleeve, and She would trill: "Knowest thou the Land?" So thorough a wooing song did this aria from Mignon become that the opera itself became boresome. People refused to go hear...
...Melms, coloratura singer, born in Appleton, Wis. She made her debut in Rigoletto. Staid people have been foolish enough to believe that a mod ern audience could not be more than politely moved by the graceful insipidities of the old score-that the days were past when a perfect trill was a signal for young men in evening clothes to unhitch the horses of a prima donna's carriage and pull her home themselves. The Chicago enthusiasts stopped short of this. But they held up the performance after she had sung the "Caro Nome," and gave Luella Melius...
...noticeably unaffected by the rythmic nothings which curiously garbed damse's waft across the footlights. But in the case of the dine and-dance, belle, the consequences are most grave. If the stage prototype of their kind becomes immediately and universally popular, who can persuade the girls not to trill and warble? They all act already, but a working-girl opera, such as Mr. Kahn proposes to inflict upon the docile audience, will ruin the hearts and digestions of a whole generation of young Americans whose lives will be upset by the operatic tantrums of the "jazz baby...
...singers from the National Cash Register Company, with 48 professional vocalists to chant t he solo parts so that the quartettes were themselves fair sized choruses-that began Cincinnati's homage to Apollo for 1923. It was prodigious-for mere magnitude. Imagine a dozen soprano voices singing a trill in unison, as they did. The performance was very good, and received universal praise. It deserved...