item: #1 of 20
          id: 15385
      author: Allen, James Lane
       title: A Cathedral Singer
        date: None
       words: 19715
      flesch: 83
     summary: She thought of it as being like some great characters in human life which need so little to make them go easily and make them go right. To them there were never enough of these brief talks, which invariably drew human life into relationship to the art of portraiture, and set the one reality over against the other reality--the turbulence of a human life and the still image of it on the canvas.
    keywords: cathedral; day; eyes; face; good; hands; human; lad; life; look; man; model; mother; nature; new; room; time; voice; way; world
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        item: #2 of 20
          id: 15446
      author: Brower, Harriette
       title: Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers, Comprising Interviews with Caruso, Farrar, Maurel, Lehmann, and Others
        date: None
       words: 57550
      flesch: 77
     summary: We want singing actors as well as great singers. While zealously guarding her time from interruption from the merely curious, Miss Farrar does not entrench herself behind insurmountable barriers, as many singers seem to do, so that no honest seeker for her views of study and achievement can find her.
    keywords: american; art; artist; breath; career; control; course; day; good; italian; mastery; music; new; opera; people; piano; practice; right; rôle; singer; singing; student; study; teacher; technic; things; time; tone; use; vocal; voice; way; words; work; years
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        item: #3 of 20
          id: 16427
      author: Pedler, Margaret
       title: The Splendid Folly
        date: None
       words: 83525
      flesch: 83
     summary: At last Diana spoke in low, shaken tones, her head bowed. Jerry, my young and ignorant friend, let me introduce you to Miss Diana Quentin, the-- Good Lord! broke in Jerry, his face falling.
    keywords: adrienne; baroni; day; dear; diana; door; errington; eyes; face; gervais; god; good; great; half; hand; head; heart; house; husband; jerry; joan; lermontof; life; lips; look; love; man; max; miss; moment; mrs; new; olga; people; quentin; right; room; round; set; smile; stair; thing; thought; time; trust; voice; way; wife; woman; world
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        item: #4 of 20
          id: 17464
      author: Ferris, George T. (George Titus)
       title: Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag
        date: None
       words: 52077
      flesch: 63
     summary: With great _sang-froid_ the unlucky singer said: You fancy you are mortifying me by hooting me; you are grossly deceived; on the contrary, I applaud your judgment, for I solemnly declare that I never appear on any stage without receiving the same treatment, and sometimes worse. For several years, indeed, she sang in Paris, Italy, and London with great _eclat_, but the indescribable luster of her singing had lost its bloom and freshness.
    keywords: admiration; afterward; appearance; arnould; art; artist; audience; beauty; billington; brilliant; career; catalani; composer; court; day; effect; england; english; execution; farinelli; faustina; french; gabrielli; genius; german; great; house; italian; italy; king; life; london; mara; mme; mrs; music; new; night; opera; paris; pasta; performance; power; public; singer; singing; sontag; sophie; stage; style; success; theatre; time; voice; woman; world; years; young
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        item: #5 of 20
          id: 17465
      author: Ferris, George T. (George Titus)
       title: Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens
        date: None
       words: 58449
      flesch: 62
     summary: When she was reproached by Fetis for using _ad captandum_ effects too lavishly in the admonition: With the degree of elevation to which you have attained, you should impose your opinion on the public, not submit to theirs, she answered, with a laugh and a shrug of her charming shoulders: _Mon cher grognon_, there may perhaps be two or three connoisseurs in the theatre, but it is not they who give success. His first great success, which caused his engagement in grand opera, was the creation of _Edgardo_ in Lucia di Lammermoor at Naples in 1835.
    keywords: alboni; appearance; artist; audience; career; character; composer; début; engagement; enthusiasm; father; french; garcia; genius; german; great; grisi; italian; jenny; lablache; life; lind; london; lyric; malibran; maria; mlle; mme; musical; nature; new; night; opera; operatic; paris; pasta; performance; persiani; power; public; rubini; season; singer; singing; stage; success; theatre; time; titiens; viardot; voice; woman; years
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        item: #6 of 20
          id: 17495
      author: Bellinger, Martha Idell Fletcher
       title: The Stolen Singer
        date: None
       words: 76888
      flesch: 85
     summary: Little by little Agatha grew more quiet, though not less brave. Ah, Miss Agatha Redmond--the doctor continued frequently to address her by her full name, half in affectionate deference and half with some dry sense of humor peculiar to himself--Miss Agatha Redmond, so you're beginning to pick up!
    keywords: agatha; aleck; camp; car; chamberlain; chatelard; d'arc; day; doctor; eyes; face; good; half; hambleton; hand; heart; house; james; jeanne; jim; jimmy; lanie; life; little; look; mademoiselle; man; mind; miss; moment; mrs; new; night; place; redmond; reynier; room; sallie; sea; stoddard; straker; thayer; thought; time; van; voice; water; way; woman; words; yacht
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        item: #7 of 20
          id: 22244
      author: Ginther, Pemberton
       title: Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge
        date: None
       words: 41674
      flesch: 82
     summary: Patricia Makes Another Friend 84 VII. Patricia Decides To Make the Best of It 215 XVI.
    keywords: artemis; bruce; constance; dear; door; doris; elinor; eyes; face; girl; good; great; head; judith; like; lodge; long; look; madame; merton; milano; miss; mrs; patricia; room; rosamond; studio; tancredi; thought; time; way
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        item: #8 of 20
          id: 26593
      author: MacGrath, Harold
       title: The Place of Honeymoons
        date: None
       words: 57901
      flesch: 89
     summary: There were other men, other vacant chairs. That will be Nora Harrigan.
    keywords: abbott; barone; celeste; colonel; courtlandt; day; door; duke; eyes; face; father; flora; friend; half; hand; harrigan; hat; head; heart; herr; italian; know; left; look; love; mademoiselle; man; men; mind; moment; monsieur; morning; mother; mrs; night; nora; padre; paris; room; rosen; things; time; villa; voice; way; wish; woman; world
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        item: #9 of 20
          id: 32835
      author: Farrar, Geraldine
       title: Geraldine Farrar: The Story of an American Singer
        date: None
       words: 24120
      flesch: 70
     summary: It was arranged, however, that I should always be subject to the demands of the Royal Opera, and one of the clauses of the Conried contract was that, if at any time I was called back to appear in Berlin, my contract would be indefinitely postponed until such time as I could fulfill it without conflicting with my Berlin contract. MY FIRST DAYS IN MY DREAM WORLD
    keywords: american; berlin; boston; career; carlo; day; days; farrar; girl; home; house; illustration; melrose; metropolitan; miss; monte; mother; mrs; new; night; opera; paris; royal; rôle; season; sing; singing; study; time; voice; years; york
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        item: #10 of 20
          id: 32979
      author: Van Vechten, Carl
       title: Interpreters
        date: None
       words: 38179
      flesch: 69
     summary: It may be sufficient to recall to the reader--who, in remembering, may recapture the thrill--the effect she produces with the poignant lines beginning _Amour, puissant amour_ at the close of the third act of _Armide_, the dull, spent quality of the voice emitted over the words _ I found the text of _Armide_ particularly difficult because it was in old French, and because it was in verse.
    keywords: act; art; artists; ballet; carmen; chaliapine; day; drama; effect; elektra; farrar; fremstad; french; garden; good; house; interpretation; like; louise; mary; metropolitan; miss; mme; music; new; new york; nijinsky; olive; opera; paris; performance; public; répertoire; rôle; salome; scene; second; singer; singing; stage; theatre; time; voice; way; woman; work; york
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        item: #11 of 20
          id: 32980
      author: Howard, Kathleen
       title: Confessions of an Opera Singer
        date: None
       words: 59275
      flesch: 75
     summary: Moissy as _Prince Hal_ in his father's deathbed scene; the _Doll Tearsheet_; the collection of hangers-on in the Inn Scene, the understanding of the spirit of Shakespeare--all these were priceless joys. It seemed to go on for ages, but at last _Siegfried_, waiting for his cue in the wings, realized that he must save the scene, entered and escorted his befuddled relation from the stage.
    keywords: american; berlin; carmen; contract; course; court; darmstadt; day; days; director; dress; duke; engagement; english; evening; felt; find; french; german; girl; grand; half; hand; head; home; hours; house; left; life; marks; metz; money; new; night; officers; opera; paris; people; performance; place; real; rehearsal; room; round; rôles; season; second; sing; singer; singing; sister; sort; stage; tenor; theatre; things; thought; time; town; voice; way; white; women; word; work; years
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        item: #12 of 20
          id: 33168
      author: Lahee, Henry Charles
       title: Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday
        date: None
       words: 52396
      flesch: 68
     summary: | 1703 | 1709 |_1740_ Epine, Francesca Margherita | ?
    keywords: america; appearance; art; audience; berlin; career; century; company; concert; daughter; day; donna; début; emma; engagement; england; europe; family; father; good; house; life; london; lucca; madame; mapleson; marie; married; miss; music; new; nilsson; opera; paris; patti; performance; place; prima; public; reputation; season; singer; singing; stage; study; success; tenor; theatre; time; tour; united; vienna; voice; wagner; years; york; | |
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        item: #13 of 20
          id: 33358
      author: Cooke, James Francis
       title: Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists
        date: None
       words: 71914
      flesch: 71
     summary: A noted expert, who for many years directed the recording laboratories of a famous sound reproducing machine company, a man whose acquaintance with great singers of the time is very wide, once told the writer of a singer who made records so perfect from the standpoint of tone that no musical critic could possibly find fault with them. You may say that it is expensive to hear great singers, and that you can only attend recitals and the opera occasionally.
    keywords: america; art; artist; audience; career; concert; course; day; début; exercises; experience; fact; good; great; illustration; italian; italy; kind; know; life; long; matter; means; metropolitan; mind; mme; musical; new; opera; opera house; opera singer; operatic; people; piano; practice; public; pupil; right; rôles; schumann; singer; singing; songs; stage; student; study; success; teacher; things; time; tone; training; vocal; voice; way; work; world; years; york
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        item: #14 of 20
          id: 36215
      author: Strang, Lewis Clinton
       title: Famous Prima Donnas
        date: None
       words: 42702
      flesch: 69
     summary: The last two plays, it will be remembered, were by Bronson Howard, and he once took occasion to remark that Miss Hall came nearer meeting his ideal of the two characters she impersonated than any other actress on the stage. During the first half of the season of 1899-1900, Miss Hall was the Praline in The Girl from Maxim's,--a French farce, undeniably dirty, but funny to those not saturated to the point of boredom with the foreign variety of low comedy, which has all the marks of being manufactured to order.
    keywords: act; alice; art; ashley; boston; celeste; character; comedy; company; d'arville; davis; della; earle; edna; fox; girl; glaser; great; hall; hopper; light; lillian; little; marie; miss; mrs; music; new; nielsen; opera; pauline; personality; russell; rôle; season; singing; stage; success; tempest; templeton; theatre; time; voice; way; woman; work; years; york
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        item: #15 of 20
          id: 38023
      author: Kellogg, Clara Louise
       title: Memoirs of an American Prima Donna
        date: None
       words: 115450
      flesch: 77
     summary: What I did not go on to say to her, although I longed to, was that she was not the _build_ of which _prime donne_ are made. One must be _in_ music in some way; must hear it often, or, even, hear it talked about.
    keywords: american; artists; audience; boston; clara; company; concert; country; course; day; days; dear; donna; duchess; england; english; evening; fact; faust; fine; french; friends; general; german; girl; good; home; hotel; house; idea; illustration; italian; kellogg; left; life; linda; little; london; look; louise; lucca; man; mapleson; marguerite; matter; men; miss; mme; mother; mrs; music; new; night; nilsson; occasion; opera; paris; patti; people; performance; photograph; place; play; point; poor; present; prima; public; room; rôle; season; second; singer; singing; sir; song; sort; stage; success; theatre; thing; thought; time; voice; war; way; woman; work; world; years; york
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        item: #16 of 20
          id: 38153
      author: Wagnalls, Mabel
       title: Stars of the Opera A Description of Operas & a Series of Personal Interviews with Marcela Sembrich, Emma Eames, Emma Calvé, Lillian Nordica, Lilli Lehmann, Geraldine Farrar & Nellie Melba
        date: None
       words: 57947
      flesch: 76
     summary: Madame Butterfly MADAME BUTTERFLY Beauty of plot and great music are to an opera what fair features and a noble soul are to woman. We are now prepared for the legendary character of the opera; such music could not represent things earthly.
    keywords: accompaniment; act; aida; butterfly; carmen; charlotte; chorus; curtain; day; death; effect; elsa; father; faust; hamlet; harmonies; heart; hero; high; josé; king; lakme; lehmann; life; lohengrin; long; love; madame; melody; moment; music; new; opera; orchestra; people; play; queen; raoul; scene; singing; sings; song; stage; tells; theme; time; tones; valentine; voice; wagner; way; werther; words; work
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        item: #17 of 20
          id: 39392
      author: Lytton, Henry A.
       title: The Secrets of a Savoyard
        date: None
       words: 57340
      flesch: 76
     summary: Well, I bedecked myself in my best and marched off in good time to the trysting place at the stage door. Good day!'
    keywords: act; audience; bunthorne; captain; carte; company; course; d'oyly; day; days; end; gilbert; good; hand; heart; ida; iolanthe; jack; king; lady; left; life; little; london; lord; love; lytton; man; men; mikado; music; nanki; new; night; operas; patience; performance; play; playing; point; poo; princess; savoy; scene; sing; sir; song; stage; story; sullivan; time; way; work; years; yum
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        item: #18 of 20
          id: 40844
      author: Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
       title: The Diva's Ruby
        date: None
       words: 119202
      flesch: 85
     summary: When Griggs heard the news of Margaret's engagement to Logotheti, he immediately began to wonder how Mr. Van Torp would receive the intelligence; and if it had not already occurred to Lady Maud that the millionaire might make a final effort to rout his rival and marry the Primadonna himself, the old author's observation suggested such a possibility. There had been no reason why she should not write the news to Mr. Van Torp, even though it was not public property yet, for he was her intimate friend, and she knew him to be as reticent as all doctors ought to be and as some solicitors' clerks are.
    keywords: american; baraka; business; captain; day; door; english; eyes; face; friend; girl; good; great; half; hand; head; kralinsky; lady; lady maud; left; life; logotheti; look; looking; man; margaret; maud; men; moment; money; mrs; new; people; pinney; place; right; room; ruby; rushmore; saw; sir; sort; speak; stemp; things; think; thought; time; tone; van torp; voice; want; water; way; woman; world; yacht
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        item: #19 of 20
          id: 58876
      author: Wood, Joanna E. (Joanna Ellen)
       title: Judith Moore; or, Fashioning a Pipe
        date: None
       words: 50334
      flesch: 81
     summary: The way to old man Morris'? Miss Judith Moore fancied her own feet, and fancied open-work silk hose, and high-heeled wisps of shoes.
    keywords: andrew; bill; cutler; day; dog; door; eyes; face; felt; good; green; hand; head; heart; hiram; home; house; judith; judith moore; kate; life; lips; look; looking; love; man; miss; moment; moore; morris; mother; mrs; myers; night; old; ovid; people; sam; school; suse; thought; time; tommy; tree; village; voice; way; white; woman; world
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        item: #20 of 20
          id: 59724
      author: Ludlow, James M. (James Meeker)
       title: The Baritone's Parish; or, "All Things to All Men"
        date: None
       words: 8734
      flesch: 88
     summary: I want you to let me rest for a while on your confidence, your good wishes, Mr. Vox; and to let me drop in once in a while, just to tell you that I am all right yet. I want to know that Mr. Vox. Bring him around to dine with us Wednesday night.
    keywords: believe; caleb; doctor; downs; good; life; man; men; night; phil; sang; singer; voice; vox
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