Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vocal portions of Canada's population were unimpressed. Veterans' organizations, in particular, denounced Ottawa by letter and telegram. But the sharpest retort to the Prime Minister came from ex-Minister Ralston...
After the performance, Chicago's critics were amiable indeed. Glowed Critic Claudia Cassidy of the Tribune: "Her Juliet is breathtakingly beautiful to the eye and dulcet to the ear ... an exquisite performance within her vocal limitations, and considering the way she looks, not many are going to quibble about a few notes here and there." Said the Sun's learned Felix Borowski: "The singer has the small, almost the adolescent voice, which gave her vocalism the girlish timbre at least, which some other Juliets of operatic history-most of them fair, fat and forty-generally have lacked...
...Among vocal connoisseurs Miliza Korjus' silvery, agile recordings of such challenging arias as the Bell Song from Lakmé and the Queen of the Night Aria from The Magic Flute had roused admiration and curiosity. But until this week, almost none of her phonographic fans had heard her in the flesh. When she walked on Carnegie Hall's stage and launched into Lucia's Mad Scene and an assortment of Mozart and Verdi fireworks, they lent attentive ears. Soprano Korjus flatted on a couple of high notes, sang a phrase or two off pitch. Her high...
Even today, Miliza Korjus' vocal career is hard pressed by her zest for life. She dislikes singing in opera houses. "Averybody ees perspiring around," she explains, "the preema donnas are screaming, the stagehands are shouting. I am much uncomfortable een opera performances-besides, I do not like to haf to look over the heads of all the tenors" (she stands about 5 ft. 7 in her stocking feet...
Admittedly most of the criticisms had come from conservative elements, which are most vocal. But Banker Burgess wanted to be constructive. Forthwith he set an A.B.A. committee to the task of restudying and possibly drafting simplified or alternative ideas to the Bretton Woods proposals...