Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When Soprano Maria Jeritza made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Tote Stadt, Manhattan was scoured for a "property" lute called for in the book. No lute could be found; a guitar was used instead...
...liking or not, that order must be filled. In such a curiously commercial predicament is Deems Taylor, manufacturer of musical criticism and music. After his King's Henchman had had a fair success three years ago, he was commissioned to write a second opera for the Metropolitan Opera Company. Since that time he has ostensibly been a musical handyman, editing Musical America, which under his regime went bankrupt, writing miscellaneous articles for magazines, expounding opera on the radio (TIME, Nov. 18). In secret he has struggled with the commissioned opera. His first choice of subject was Candle Follows his Nose...
Musetta in Puccini's Boheme should be a kittenish, sweet-voiced soubrette. Italian Soprano Augusta Oltrabella, making her debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, was kittenish enough but her voice was frequently hard, shrill, piercing...
...Illinois football eleven in voting against the election of a captain for 1930 on the theory that an athletic leader does not turn in his best game when he has the added care of a captaincy should not be hailed as such a progressive and significant step as metropolitan accounts would lead us to believe...
...Pool II '28, national titleholder, and H.N. Rawlins, Jr. '27 of the Racquet and Tennis Club, 1928 champion and present holder of the Canadian and Metropolitan crowns, head the list of 16 players who will take part in the tournament. G.D. Debevoise '26, another former, Crimson star, will also play in the tourney, which will be held tomorrow and Sunday...