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...after villainous Lord Ashton (Baritone Giuseppe de Luca) had driven her to her wits' end with his connivings against her lover (Tenor Beniamino Gigli) she found her stride. The Mad Scene, given in the key of F instead of a tone lower as is usually the case, was superbly sung. Difficult chromatic runs and arpeggios done with the greatest ease, trills and staccati true to pitch (coloraturas are inclined to sing off-key), a high E flat clearly sung, not just peeped?these won her cheers and a dozen or more curtain calls...
...immediate future includes a concert at Milton on the evening of Friday. February 20. On Tuesday afternoon and evening. February 24, the Club will join with the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in the Bach Festival. Bach's "Mass in B. Minor" will be sung. The following Thursday the three musical groups will render the composer's "Magnificat" followed by the "Mass" on Sunday, March...
...sent to an outpost where the men are noted for slaughtering their officers. At regular intervals, in solo and duet, princess and lieutenant emit the show's celebrated and familiar song-hit, "Lover, Come Back to Me,'' singing it probably better than it has ever been sung before. Grace Moore is not a polished actress, but she is an unusually handsome and healthy looking young woman. Lawrence Tibbett is adequately tempestuous. Best shot: Tibbett tactfully translating a gypsy song. Sunny (First National). The only excuses that could possibly be advanced for reproducing a musical comedy...
...part the following season, meanwhile was permitted to attend rehearsals. One night the soprano singing in the new opera Louise collapsed in the second act. The director remembered the girl who had been watching rehearsals, sent for her, asked if she could finish the performance. Mary Garden had never sung on a stage, never sung with orchestra. But she did not hesitate, said: "M. le Directeur, have no fear. I shall not fail." She recalls now trying postehaste to loop in the costume of the larger soprano, thinking: "My God, in all this huge place, isn't there anybody...
...Thursday, December 18, in the afternoon and evening. Dean Willard Learoyd Sperry, Professor of Homiletics and Chairman of the Board of Preachers will conduct the service Thursday afternoon. Under the direction of Professor A. T. Davidson '06, Organist and Choirmaster, a program of Christmas music will be sung by the Choir of Appleton Chapel and the Radcliffe Choral Society...