 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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Nazca photos deepen mystery.
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Byline: Colin McMahon
NAZCA, Peru _ The Nazca Lines have been a source of mystery and dispute since their discovery in southern Peru nearly a century ago. So why should the latest find be any different?
Japanese enthusiasts recently released new aerial photographs of figures etched in the ground of the Nazca region, adding a fresh dollop of wonder to the giant geometric patterns and animal drawings that scientists say the Nazca Indians created as many as 2,000 years ago.
Peruvian officials expressed excitement about the announcement. But Nazca ...
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Great Canadian musical figures: Georgina Stirling 1867-1935.
Magazine article from: Opera Canada
; ...arranged with famed vocal pedagogue Mathilde Marchesi in Paris. In a recently discovered...were more than enraptured... Marchesi said my voice was a true mezzo...for the minimum 13 months that Marchesi demanded and began lessons in French...
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The Extraordinary Operatic Adventures of Blanche Arral
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...grow any bigger, because you gave my milk to my niece, Valentine!" A pupil of Mathilde Marchesi, Arral had the clear, pliant tone typical of the Marchesi school: John Steane, in The Grand Tradition (1969), praises the "vivacity and...
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Julia Culp
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...floated in silver streams through the room" at a Berlin party given to honor the great singer and voice teacher Mathilde Marchesi. Silver characterizes Culp's sound in touching readings of Schumann's "Mondnacht" and "Du bist wie eine Blume...
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Will the real Lucia please stand up?
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...cadenza in the mad scene, in which Lucia parries with a solo flute, is wholly anachronistic, perhaps composed by Mathilde Marchesi or even Nellie Melba. Donizetti's own simple cadenza, with its "dying fall" and choral accompaniment, is far...
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Clear, beautiful voice from the past
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times
; ...and studied music. In 1901 she went to London, then Paris, where she acquired her new name and became a pupil of Mathilde Marchesi, already famous as the teacher of Melba. Alda first sang at Covent Garden as a replacement for an indisposed Melba...
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Angels and Monsters: Male and Female Sopranos in the Story of Opera, 1600-1900.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...In three chapters, he focuses on the students of such important teachers as Giulio Caccini, Nicola Porpora, and Mathilde Marchesi. In other chapters singers are grouped according to their national tradition or by association with specific composers...
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BEVERLY SILLS
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...brought her seven-yearold daughter to the attention of the brilliant teacher Estelle Liebling. A onetime student of Mathilde Marchesi, Liebling had in turn taught Amelita Galli-Curci, among others. Sills would study with Liebling until the latter...
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Another view
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...American parents, Eames was trained first in Boston, then at the Paris studio of the iron-willed bel canto doyenne Mathilde Marchesi. She arrived at the Met as Wagner's Elsa in 1891 and gave 439 performances with the company before she departed...
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For Melba, a Well-Deserved Toast
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...in Melbourne in 1861; she took the name Melba, in honor of her home town, when she was 26. After studies with Mathilde Marchesi (whose other pupils included Emma Eames and Emma Calve, two of Melba's later rivals) she made a spectacular...
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Marvelous Melba: The Extraordinary Life of a Great Diva
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...s major-league careers in Europe and America get their due, as do her unhappy marriage, her legendary coach Mathilde Marchesi and her great love affair with Philippe, due d'Orlans. There is some new data from divorce papers and family...
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