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...Jenkins' voice was a little tired but back she came in blue & cream satin, a rhinestone stomacher and a rhinestone tiara. Cinemen turned their cameras on her while she struggled with the Vissi d'Arte from Tosca. Last year she sang a flower song while tossing roses into the audience. In her excitement the basket slipped from her hand, hit an old gentle man on the head. Last week she repeated the flower song, pleased her friends by again hurling the basket...
...Farrar first appeared as the ragged goosegirl in Die Königskinder, surrounded by a flock of live geese which she insisted on having against all other judgment; the night golden-haired Maria Jeritza gave her first breath-taking performance of Tosca and astounded New Yorkers by singing the Vissi d' arte lying flat on the stage; the night Marion Talley made her debut with a delegation from Kansas City to ballyhoo her placid, immature performance; the night Antonio Scotti, celebrating his 25th anniversary at the Metropolitan, received as tribute a brace of pigeons hidden in a great basket...
Tosca, Lohengrin, Cavelleria, Walkure followed the first season. Rosenkavalier, Thaïs, Tannhaüser, Fedora, Jenufa, Jewels of the Madonna, Turandot, Violanta, Carmen have been added since. Tosca and its like have brought her most fame. All the world knows now that she sings the Vissi d'arte lying flat on the stage, that she rolls down the church steps in Cavalleria, dies in most horrible agony in Carmen and Fedora, has a dozen devices for making opera exciting. Artistically she has done better with Walküre, Rosenkavalier, Lohengrin, Tannhaüser. Few having seen will forget...
...program follows: I Come, Thou, Oh, Come Bach An Easter Hallelujah Vulpins Ave, Verum Corpus Des Pres The Glee Club II Am Sontag Morgen Brahms Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer Brahms Von Ewiger Liebe Brahms Stornellatrice Respight Caro, Caro el mio Bambin Guar Nieri Vissi D'Arte from Tosca Puccini Miss Giannini III Glorious Apollo Webbe Two Folk Songs: The Turtle Dove Williams Swansea Town Hampshire Arranged by Holst Madrigal Montwerdi O Isis and Osiris, from The Magic Flute Mozart Soloist: J. E. Gurney Four Choruses, from Patience Sullivan The Glee Club IV Four Italian Folk Songs Arranged by Vittoris...
...program for the concert is as follows: Come, Thou, Oh, Come Bach An Easter Halleujah Vulpius Ave, Verum Corpus Des Pres The Glee Club Am Sontag Morgen Immer leiser wiremein Schlumme Von wiger liebe Stornellatrice Respighi Caro, Caro el mio Bambin Buarnieri Vissi d' Arte Puccini Miss Giannini Glorious Apollo Webbe Two Folk Songs; The Turtle Dove Williams Swansea Town Hoist Madrigal Monteverdi O Isis and Isiris from "The Magic Mozart Flute" Four Choruses from "Patience" Sullivan The Glee Club Four Italian Folk Songs Miss Giannini The Hundered Pipers Scottish Folk Songs The Nightingale Chaikovsky How Beautiful Are the Feet...