Word: contraltos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Matzenauer, contralto prima donna: "Last week I filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. My liabilities were listed as $48,410. Among those to whom I am debtor are Felix Warburg, banker and art patron, $20,000; the U. S. Government, $1,500 income tax; New York State, $1,000 income tax; modistes, department stores, tradesmen, fish and ice dealers; $1.97 to Western Union. My only unmortgaged assets were my opera costumes, but I claimed exemption on those...
...audience which warmly greeted the début of a contralto in Minneapolis were many sharp- seeing critics of pugilism. They were not always sure of the correct moment to applaud, but when they got the "tip" from others, they joined raucously in the hand-slapping. They did not "razz" as was their wont when displeased at prize fights. They were the former pals and admirers of Billy Miske, deceased pug, whose widow has assumed concert singing as her mode of breadwinning. Miske made a fortune in the ring, lost it in investments...
...Manhattan, the American League of Professional Women held a music forum luncheon last week. Two guests of honor were given the same topic: "What shall we do about jazz?" They were Dr. John Roach Straton, fundamentalist Baptist, and Marguerite d'Alvarez, Peruvian contralto. Dr. Straton rose first, bit off his words, said loudly, severely...
...American music by American artists" was given last week in Manhattan, the first concert under the auspices of the American Academy of Arts and Letters "to aid in fuller recognition of distinguished American artists." The American artists were: Mme. Charles Cahier, contralto; Ruth Breton, violinist; Fred Patton, baritone; John Powell, composer-pianist. The American music was Powell's Variations and Fugue on a theme of F. C. Hahr, songs by Loeffler, Chadwick, Carpenter, Sidney Homer, Henry Hadley, E. S. Kelley, Walter Damrosch, Edward Harris, arrangements of Kentucky mountain songs by Howard A. Brockway, violin numbers by Brockway, Cecil Burleigh, Hadley...
...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...