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...Wagner's Die Meistersinger, the Cincinnati Symphony ended its first season's attempt at presenting grand opera as a part of its regular schedule. Four Wagner operas had been given in all. Singers had been imported for principal roles. A group of local choristers had gladly sung for nothing. In Die Meistersinger last week the Eva was one of the comeliest young women who has ever made an operatic debut. She was Inez Gorman...
...clock in New York's Town Hall, center of musical interest in the metropolis. "The Peaceable Kingdom", by Randall Thompson '20, which had its world's premiere at Sanders Theatre on March 3, and was especially assigned to the University singers, stands out among the selections which will be sung by the combined choristers. The first half hour of concert will be broadcast over the Columbia Broadcasting System...
Newberry's "This is the Night," ably sung in the show by Lawrence L. Davis '38, is already being played over radio net-works and is soon to be published in New York. Louis Armstrong, dusky bombshell of rhythm, has promised that he will make a record of "Zulu Lulu" in the near future...
...season turned out for a special performance of La Boheme in which the heroine was Grace Moore making her first Manhattan opera appearance since 1932. Since then, with One Night of Love and Love Me Forever, the blonde soprano had become a top-notch cinema success. She had sung in London's Covent Garden at the command of the Royal Family (TIME, June 24), returned to the U. S. to be greeted like a Jenny Lind. Airplanes circled her ship, flying streamers inscribed with "WELCOME, GRACE MOORE...
...third but highly helpful wheel in the Rogers-Astaire tandem, wrote music and lyrics of all seven tunes used in Follow the Fleet. The more serious numbers, Here Am I, But Where Are You, Get Thee Behind Me, Satan, have a nostalgic catch that is characteristically Berlinish. They are sung by Harriet Hilliard whose general proficiency got her a starring contract when RKO officials saw Follow the Fleet previewed...