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...this performance Mme. Segrid Onegiu assisted the Club and sang the contralto solo for the Rhapsody. At Wheaton College on Tuesday night, the solo will be sung by Mrs. Amy Durfee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIFTY-FIVE MEN TO MAKE TRIP TO WHEATON WITH GLEE CLUB | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

...last week, 50 year later, in Carnegie Hall with a chorus of 200 and a large orchestra drawn from the New York Symphony. An earnest audience, knowing Elijah to be good, assumed the performance to be equally good; applauded indiscriminately mediocre singing by Marjorie Nash, soprano; by Jeanne Laval, contralto; the Elijah of Baritone Louis Gravewre, celebrating his tenth anniversary in the role with a performance well below his usual excellent standard; Septuagenarian Dan Beddoe, greatest of all oratorio tenors at his very best; voluminous but monstrous choral work under the leadership of Albert Stoessel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Elijah | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...concert tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall, Boston. G. W. Woodworth 2G., who is conducting the Glee Club during the absence of Dr. A. T. Davison, who is taking his sabbatical leave of absence, will lead the club in tomorrow's concert. Mine, Sigrid Onegin, contralto, will sing the solo parts of Glee Club numbers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club Concert Tomorrow | 12/9/1925 | See Source »

...University Glee Club, assisted by Sigrid Onegin, prominent concert contralto, will give its first concert of the season in Symphony Hall on Thursday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club Sings Thursday | 12/1/1925 | See Source »

...Quake, he has not sung in Johnstown since the Flood, nor, until last week, had he sung in San Francisco since the Fire. His great voice boomed there last week; other famed singers tuned their notes-Tita Schipa, tenor from the Chicago Civic Opera; Marguerite d'Alvarez, Spanish contralto; Rosina Torri, from La Scala; Fernand Ansseau, Belgian. Fans, neckcloths, puffed and powdered melodies furbished once more the elegant infidelities of Manon Lescaitt; pompous swaddlings adorned the familiar French-Hebrew heroics of Samson et Dalila. The San Francisco Opera Company had begun its season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Openings | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

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