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Lily Pons could take the high notes but she couldn't take the altitude, so she abruptly canceled two dates with the National Opera in mile-and-a-half-high Mexico City. Rumored differences with a baritone, said the Opera management, had nothing to do with it. Pons got...
Fielding's first importation was Conductor Andre Kostelanetz and wife Lily Pons. Critics mauled Kostelanetz's opening program of classical bromides and filigree jazz. Said the Daily Mail: "The minuet [third movement of Beethoven's First Symphony] was turned into a gallop and the finale beat all...
Liszt in Technicolor. Of the many "serious" musicians to trek to Hollywood (among them Lawrence Tibbett, Lily Pons, Risë Stevens), only Jose Iturbi and Wagnerian Tenor Lauritz Melchior have made the grade, by their ability to be themselves on the screen, to get off foolish lines with M-G...
Lily Pons: Waltz Album (Columbia, 8 sides). Piccolo-voiced Pons trills Gounod, Strauss and Noel Coward, all in three-quarters time. Performance: good.
This literary descendant of the Master deserves the nostalgic sighs his exploits will bring from most died-in-the-red Baker Street Irregulars. Readers who do not genuflect before No. 7 will note that Detective Pons shares his prototype's shortcomings along with his virtues: his puzzles aren'...