Word: rosario
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greenwich Village, at Columbia University's School of Journalism the Santa Claus editorial was held up to students as the perfect example of its type. Finally, as sooner or later happens to all such classics, the Sun's credo was set to music. The composer, NBC Conductor Rosario Bourdon, made a cantata out of it, with chords of booming brass, a soprano soloist and a male chorus, broadcast it (1932) with Soprano Jessica Dragonette. This year, for the Christmas trade, Jessica Dragonette made Is There a Santa Claus? immortal on a Victor phonograph record...
...week Cities Service signed up for its 13th year over NBC. Like many another radio old timer, the Cities Service program got its start with Graham McNamee announcing. First feature was silvery Edwin Franko Goldman's cornety band. When the program was a half-year old, Canadian Conductor Rosario Bourdon took over, be gan making the Cities Service hour the big-time show it is today. He handed the baton over last February to Dr.* Frank Jeremiah Black, an old timer...
Twice last week General Queipo de Llano was in the news. From Valencia came word that his sister Rosario, a Leftist hostage since immediately after the beginning of the war, had finally been released from jail in an exchange of prisoners. From his headquarters at Seville came a story of an attempt to kidnap the radio general himself. Weeks ago General Queipo de Llano set out on an inspection trip of the lines north of Córdoba. Entranced by his ceaseless flow of conversation, staff officers did not notice until almost too late that the chauffeur...
...with Colombia. His mother taught Gregorian chant in a local church. Save for her, young Gian-Carlo had little music instruction until he was 18. In that year Father Menotti died, and Gian-Carlo went to South America to set tle his accounts. Later, in New York, he met Rosario Scalero of Curtis Institute who got him a scholarship there...
...close a concert in Rosario, Argentina, Violinist Mischa Elman played as an encore his own composition "Tango." Wildly the audience demanded to hear it again. Elman declined to repeat, played instead a dozen different encores. Exhausted, he bowed his way off the stage. Up over the footlights and into Elrnan's dressing room swarmed the insistent audience. Seizing the violinist, they dragged him back on the stage, pleaded until he repeated "Tango...