Word: trilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dchen, in which she made a sustained low D seem incidental to the horror of the dying girl, the call of Death itself. Thereafter came an aria from Verdi's Don Carlos, made vivid by canny restraint. With Sibelius' Die Libelle she proved that she could trill. After spirituals the audience clamored for encores for a good half hour, until the hall's lights were dimmed and the curtains finally closed. Most singers are all too eager to capitalize on a sure-fire success. To get a glimpse of Marian Anderson after last week's concert...
...important patrons as Charles Henry Swift, Rufus Cutler Dawes, Harold Fowler McCormick, Conductor Stock. Pianist Josef Hofmann was playing two blocks away but a good-sized audience came to hear Rosenstein, heartily applauded his poise throughout a difficult program, his accurate speed in Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata, his purity of tone enhanced by a $20,000 Stradivarius lent him for the occasion...
Alexander Moissi's Italian mother taught him her tongue without much opposition from his Albanian father, so he still speaks German with a faint trill in his r's and an insufficient guttural. In Trieste he went to the only Italian Real-gymnasium where the pupils did not have to learn Latin and Greek. His ancestors had all been solid people, merchants, physicians, even one general, but he decided to be an actor. After a while in stock, he convinced Max Reinhardt that he was a good actor, thus adding to Reinhardt's reputation for "discovering" talent...