Word: basso
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...Chicago opera house handsome Basso Ezio Pinza made a suave, red-clawed devil in Boito's Mefistofele. The Marguerite was Soprano Edith Mason, oldtime Chicago favorite. Dominant behind the scenes was Italian Paul Longone, with the title of "General Manager...
...Individual voices have a natural, intrained quality. In a well-disciplined ensemble they blend to make sure-fire effects, attain nostalgic softness, rise to mighty crescendoes. Leader of the Moscow Cathedral Choir is slender, personable Vicolas Afonsky, a Tsarist army officer. The featured soloist is Kapiton Zaporojetz a massive basso profundo whom the Tsar's young daughters used to call "that rosy milk-fed piglet." Conductor Afonsky did his job in a quiet, self-effacing way last week. Basso Zaporojetz emitted cavernous tones to enrich the ensemble. But the best solo work was turned in by one Madame Pavlenko...
...mimeograph machine, got out a daily newspaper called The Touring Tattler. Object was to inspire the Amphions with rousing editorials, to entertain them with such local bits as "Any of you boys who are suffering from missing buttons, holely socks or ripped pants need only apply to [Basso] Judge Leonard for relief. He, so they say, has a most neat and tidy sewing...
...will, Dean Ernest Hutcheson of the Juilliard School of Music, President John ("Helen of Troy") Erskine who has long been ambitious to dictate Metropolitan policies. In exchange for its donation, the Juilliards claimed also the right to pass on the Metropolitan's new managerial force. Herbert Witherspoon, oldtime basso and now a member of the Juilliard teaching staff, was named to succeed General Manager Gatti. Experienced Edward Ziegler will be retained as assistant general manager. Tenor Edward Johnson was appointed as another assistant, to concern himself chiefly with the Juilliard's pet supplementary season...
...annual Pension Fund Concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is to be presented on Sunday afternoon, March 17, at Symphony Hall. The program contains familiar Wagnerian excerpts including the overture to the opera "Tannhauser." In addition, Feodor Chaliapin, noted Russian basso, is to be heard with the orchestra in selections from Moussorgsky's "Boris Godounov" and from the opera "Prince Igor...