Word: contraltos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lily grows. What if a commercial scheme was parent to a national Mothers' Day? Last week, at Washington, D. C., Mme. Schumann-Heink, famed contralto, sent the notes of The Star Spangled Banner and Taps tingling down the spines of many bereaved mothers and a host of delegates to the International Council of Women (see above), as they all stood bowed before wreath-strewn soldier graves in Arlington Cemetery...
...listen to it, though their eyes might burst in wonder, for only in Russia could he find such voices as those that enchant or dominate the air of Balieff's Bat. From the piercing shriek of Katinka, through the lyric beauty of the soprano, the sombre resignation of the contralto, the passion of the tenor, the expansiveness of the baritone, to that epitome of Slavdom, the resonance of a Russian bass--all were perfection in every register; a complete organ in themselves, though composed only of the vox humana
Divorced. Kathleen Howard, famed contralto of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan, from Lawyer K. Baird, onetime associate with Otto H. Kahn, Thomas W. Lament, Frank A. Vanderlip, Alvin W. Krech, in the short-lived Century Opera Company; in Manhattan...
Tomorrow evening in Jordan Hall, a concert by Abbie Conley Rice, contralto. She will sing numbers by Haendel, Arne, Haydn, Strauss and Chausson...
Thursday evening in the same hall a concert by Betty Gray, also contralto. The program draws on Meyerbeer, Rossini, Brahms and Duparc...