Word: volga
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finest and most eloquent of all the programme was the Glee Club's third Russian Folk song: "At Father's Door". The Volga Bargemen's song arrangement is original and convincing; the "Fireflies" very effectively done. But the third one more than any of the others is worthy of the great powers of the Glee Club; in it, the listener felt the pent-up energy, the restlessness, the subterranean mutterings, the whole background of the Russian Revolution; the Glee Club vivified this remarkable feeling to an extreme degree. No one who heard them will ever doubt their greatness everyone...
...Russian basso, Feodor, Challapin, sang before a large and wildly-enthusiastic audience. His programme was as follows: First group: "Aleko", Rachmaninoff; "Yermak Tinofelevitch". Ippolitoff-Ivanoff; "Die beiden Grenadiere", Schumann. Second group: "We parted haughtily", Dargomizhsky; "Pretty Lady" (from "Don Juan"), Mozart: "When the king went forth to war", Koeneman; Volga Boat-song; "Mephisto's Song of the Flea", Mouseorgsky...
...singer was in unusually good voice, and his rich, resonant tone, his superb artistry, and his general pressence make one realize that America is right in showering with encomia this son of the Volga. Challapin is a master of all phases of the art of singing, and his legate work, his use of the portamento, and his planissimo are unexcelled today. Although he could easily do so, he never commits the sin which the French call "chantant pour la galerie"; when the composer has written a low note Challiapin doesn't take a high one for the sake...
...outstanding numbers on the programme were the aria from "Don Juan" and Moussorgsky's "Mephisto's Song of the Flea". "The two Grenadiers" was well done, particularly the stirring ending where the "Marseillaise" is introduced. The Volga Boat-song, taken at a rather fast tempo, was given an authoritative interpretation. Chaliapin answered the thunderous applause at the end of each group with several encores. Perhaps the best of these was the "Inquesta tomba" of Beethoven. Both of the assisting artists, a planist and a 'cellist, served as a good contrast for the impeecable basso of the Metropolitan...
...Rimsky-Korsakoff Festival at Bagdad, The Sea, The Ship goes to pieces on a rock surmounted by a Bronze Warrior, Conclusion. Reverie, Scriabin Hopak from "The Fair of Scrotchinsk" Moussorgsky "Ouverture Solennelle, 1812" (with organ), Tschaikowsky Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Igor", Borodin Folk Songs, Arranged by Agide Jacchia a. Volga Bargemen's Song b. Dubinushka Marche Slave, Tschaikowsky