#Lillian Nordica

[opera-ghosts]

Today a performance of Meyerbeers Grand Opera „Les Huguenots“ 1891. This performance was the Debut from Lillian Nordica at The Metropolitan Opera. 

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Lillian Nordica as Isolde

[tiaramania]

Hello, I was wondering if you had learned of the whereabouts of Lillian (Norton) Nordica's tiara since your post of October 13, 2015: "Lilian Nordica's Diamond Tiara"? I would greatly appreciate any further information you may have come across. Sincerely, Jen (a descendant of Lillian Norton)

That’s so cool!  I unfortunately don’t know what happened to Lillian Nordica’s Diamond Tiara or any of her other jewelry.  She was apparently quite the collector.  Since the tiara was made by Tiffany & Co. I would contact them to see if they can help.  Tell them who you are and that you would like any information they can give you.  They may not know what happened to the tiara either but they might give you other information like design sketches, order forms, and receipts from their archives.

[silezukuk]

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[msteaqueen]

TS4 Recolors - Lillian Bedroom

Before I get into the details of my latest upload, I must address the latest issues circulating tumblr.

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Today's update includes recolors for Lillian's Bedrooms. The base colors are browns, black and white with splashes of bold colors.

For recolors to show in game meshes are needed and links are provided.

When a mesh is included with a recolor it will be noted.

Mesh converted by me is the mesh, nothing else is needed.

To see this complete set, search Lillian Bedroom.

This set includes the following:

Novvvas - Desierto Bedroom (blanket & pillows 1&2; meshes here)

Sundays-Sims - Solitude Bedroom (blanket & pillows; meshes here) and Uluwatu Set (floor baskets; meshes here)

TS2 To TS4 Milla & BNK - Coronett Chair & Blanket (Note: These are the meshes)

PlatinumLuxeSims - Chanel Luxe Cushion (mesh here) and TSR Ung999 - Living Avon Pillow (mesh here)

Nordica-Sims - February Gifts (Livy Pillow; mesh here)

B5Studio - Anonymity and Japanese Woodcut Art (not shown; meshes included)

Thank you to the following Creators: @novvvas @sundays-sims @xplatinumxluxexsimsx @nordica-sims TSR Ung999 and B5Studio.

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The Cure for “Thinking Too Much”!

Posted on May 28, 2014  by  Pamela Starr Dewey

It was well-known in Victorian times that thinking too much was a health hazard for women. What a relief, then, that John Pemberton came to the rescue of the Weaker Sex with his new Miracle Brew that did indeed “Relieve the Fatigue that comes…from Over-thinking” as promised in the advertisement below.

During the late to mid-19th century, medicines promising to cure multiple ailments from “foul breath,” “irregularities incidental to women” and everything in between proliferated. Many times these bogus medicines were mixed with ice-cold carbonated water and served as cheaper and more refreshing alternatives.

In the spring of 1886, John Stith Pemberton, a Confederate army veteran, had created one of the most elusive and important recipes of all time. This Georgian native mixed sugar, water, kola nut extracts, coca leaf extract, and other secret ingredients into a syrupy concoction that would become the base of the world’s most prolific soft drink the world has ever known. Mixed with soda water, the drink was extremely powerful with cocaine from the coca extract and four times the amount of caffeine of the modern syrup mix. The original recipe of 1886 has since been lost in time. Pemberton’s business partner and Union army veteran, Frank Robinson decided to name the new beverage Coca-Cola. The name derived from its initial selling point: “containing the properties of the wonderful Coca Plant and the famous Cola nuts.” At the time of the drink’s inception, cocaine was a commonly used substance, but was later near-completely eliminated in 1903. [Source]

In the 1880s and 90s, the company utilized lithographs of the young, beautiful, and wealthy. Giving the impression that anyone who was willing to spend a measly five cents could live like the rich for the time it took to enjoy a glass of Coca-Cola. [ibid]

Yes, even if you couldn’t afford the type of shopping trips of the beautiful and wealthy young ladies shown above, you could window-shop-‘til-you-dropped, and then stop by the soda fountain to be “revived and sustained”–and imagine yourself chatting over your glass of Coca Cola with the Rockefellers and Carnegies…before going home to your tenement!

At first the models for the Coke ads were anonymous beautiful and wealthy young ladies. But it didn’t take long for the Coca-Cola company to realize the value of celebrity endorsements.

Singer Hilda Clark became the first celebrity model for The Coca-Cola Company. Also known as the First Coca-Cola Girl, Hilda’s image was used on cardboard signs, tin trays, trade cards, bookmarks, drink tickets, and calendars from 1899 to 1903. [Source]

The many moods of Hilda Clark, from prim and proper to a tad sultry graced Coke ads for several years.

Coke calendars became wildly popular around the turn of the century, and Hilda loaned her pretty face and poofy hair to those too.

I don’t know what happened to Hilda, but by 1904 she was replaced by a more regal celebrity.

From 1904 to 1905, Lillian Nordica became the new face of Coca-Cola. Born Lillian Norton in 1857 in Farmington, Maine, Madame Nordica was also a singer who had performed with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, as well as in many major musical venues in Western Europe and Russia. Early calendars and other promotional items featuring the divas of the time not only launched the popular Coca-Cola Girls advertising platform but Clark and Nordica items had also become some of the greatest hits with vintage Coca-Cola collectors over the years. [ibid]

It would be almost 30 years later before Coke introduced the ultimate celebrity endorser, shown here in 1932 in his very first appearance in a Coke ad.

https://ameripics.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/the-cure-for-thinking-too-much/

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Bibliographic Record

Author

Marden, Orison Swett, 1848-1924

Title   How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men Told by Themselves

Contents   Marshall Field -- Bell Telephone talk: hints on success by Alexander G. Bell -- Why the American people like Helen Gould -- Philip D. Armour's business career -- What Miss Mary E. Proctor did to popularize astronomy -- The boyhood experience of President [Jacob Gould] Schurman of Cornell University -- The story of John Wanamaker -- Giving up five thousand a year to become a sculptor [F. Wellington Ruckstuhl] -- Questions and answers: business pointers by Ogden Mills -- [Lillian] Nordica: what it costs to become a queen of song -- How he worked to secure a foot-hold: William Dean Howells -- John D. Rockefeller -- The author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic [Julia Ward Howe]: her views of education for young women -- A talk with [Thomas A.] Edison: dramatic incidents in his early life -- A fascinating story by General Lew Wallace -- [Andrew] Carnegie as a metal worker -- John B. Herreshoff, the yacht builder -- A successful novelist: fame after fifty: practical hints to young authors, by Amelia E. Barr -- How Theodore Thomas brought the people nearer to music -- John Burroughs at home: the hut on the hill top -- [Herbert H.] Vreeland's romantic story: how he came to transport a million passengers a day -- How James Whitcomb Riley came to be master of the Hoosier dialect.

Language    English

LoC Class

HF: Social sciences: Commerce

Subject

Success

Subject

United States -- Biography

Category   Text

EBook-No.64059

Release Date   Dec 16, 2020

Copyright Status    Public domain in the USA.

[j4ndr4]

Nope, valkyries don’t look like that until Wagner’s opera. They were more similar to demoniac scarecrows than modern models. And, no. They don’t engage in combat, they decide who lives or dies on battle. Also, they decide if you can go to Valhalla.

More on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke-Z-kHmz7U . Sorry, Spanish only.

Photo: Lillian Nordica, an opera singer. From https://www.centralmaine.com/

[oskarlevant]

First ever Coca-Cola magazine ad (1905), featuring Lillian Nordica and coupon for free Coke.

Later pulled for being too white.

[teaformrholmes]

Metafictional Monday

Since the recent post about Holmes and Watson’s reading material proved so popular, I thought I might start an occasional series here where I apply my vast nerdery/old-fashioned education to providing More Background Than Anyone Needs on details of the Holmesian canon. Today: the iconic conclusion to The Hound of the Baskervilles:

“And now, my dear Watson, we have had some weeks of severe work, and for one evening, I think, we may turn our thoughts into more pleasant channels. I have a box for ‘Les Huguenots.’ Have you heard the De Reszkes? Might I trouble you then to be ready in half an hour, and we can stop at Marcini’s for a little dinner on the way?”

Les Huguenots, by Meyerbeer, was arguably the grandest of grand operas, a deliberately spectacular work that was enormously popular. I can’t help thinking that, with his bohemian soul and flair for the dramatic, Holmes probably loved rooting for the protagonists -- the tenor is from a persecuted religious minority, and the soprano is trapped by class/gender expectations. They are, of course, doomed. But the music is really gorgeous. Also, there are such stage directions as “He leaps from the balcony and disappears from sight.” It was first performed in London in 1842, chosen to open the current Covent Garden Theatre in 1858, and given in the 1890s with all-star casts (like the one Holmes has so eagerly acquired a box to see.) I think it’s more likely to have been given in Italian than French, though since Holmes gives it its French title, perhaps it was performed in the original language. Or maybe Holmes is just being a pedantic purist about it; not implausible. As for Marcini’s, it is fictional, but a tribute to London’s Italian cuisine and Holmes’ knowledge of it.

Jean and Edouard de Reszke were Polish opera singers, brothers, and both very famous in the 1890s/1900s, though Jean, the elder, enjoyed the more sensational reputation. Tenors have always been sexier than basses in the popular imagination.

You can go here to hear Edouard, the bass, in a duet from Act III of the opera. Unfortunately, because of the recording technology of the wax cylinder (and its deterioration), de Reszke’s low frequencies are hard to hear, dominated by Lillian Nordica’s impressive soprano. Jean de Reszke was not only, according to rapturous newspaper accounts, a phenomenal singer, he was a superstar. He was very handsome, as well as being a singer with an instrument remarkable for its beauty, agility, and strength.

Just look at this dapper fellow:

And in costume, he got to show off:

FOREARMS. THIGHS. Opera was scandalous, folks. It’s no accident that Irene Adler’s pre-Scandal career was as an opera singer, but I digress.

Even on crackly wax cylinders, you can tell he had amazing control over his phrasing and dynamics. If the little trill at 4:30 in this video doesn’t make you go weak at the knees...!

If you’d like to hear more of what Les Huguenots actually sounded like, here’s one of the lovers’ great scenes, sung by two of the twentieth century’s greatest singers (in Italian) is here. I think that the Nordica/Jean de Reszke cylinder is an excerpt of this scene. Here’s the same moment -- the soprano has just ill-advisedly confessed her love, the tenor is blissed out about it, and she is terrified for their safety -- in a more recent rendition in French:

Did I mention this opera is capital-R Romantic? Good.

As for how Holmes and Watson would have listened to the opera: the late nineteenth century was a period when norms of listening and general opera house behavior were a) changing and b) variable. An eye-witness account of the first New York performance of Parsifal reports people trying to read their programs by the house lights because they hadn’t studied them ahead of time and others even eating peanuts in the upper galleries. In ordering a box, Holmes would have obtained for himself and Watson privacy from other people gossiping or whispering or flirting or eating peanuts or whatever; they could enjoy in the rapturous silence which apparently distinguished Holmes when listening to music (cf. REDH.) The fact that Holmes not only loved German music for introspection, but loved passionate, ridiculous, sublime opera like this makes me Seriously Question the narrative pretense that Watson only occasionally got a glimpse of the heart behind the brain. Perhaps Watson (bless his traditional, Mendelssohn-loving heart) was one of those people who just doesn’t really get opera? It’s possible. But after weeks on the moor, Holmes decided that the ideal antidote to dealing with sordid jealousies and petty, devastating revenges was a grand opera about love and self-sacrifice. Perfect.

[opera-ghosts]

Today a program from Boston Theater 1901 for Mozart's “Don Giovanni” with a exceptional cast.

[todayclassical]

May 10 in Music History

1697 Birth of French composer and violinist Jean-Marie Leclair in Lyons. 

1705 Birth of composer Gallus Zeiler.

1760 Birth of French composer Claude-Joseph Rouget de L'Isle.

1760 Death of German composer Christoph Graupner.

1776 Birth of English composer, conductor, violinist George T. Smart.

1780 Birth of Italian soprano Angelica Catalani in Senigallia. 

1780 Birth of composer Peter Lichtenthal.

1783 Birth of composer Niccola Benvenuti.

1798 FP of Boieldieu's "Zoraine et Zulnare" Paris.

1800 Birth of composer Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov.

1824 FP in US of Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro sung in English, at the Park Theater in NYC.

1825 Birth of composer Rudolf Viole.

1839 Birth of German operatic singer Amalie Weiss.

1840 Death of Italian composer Catterino Cavos in St. Petersburg.

1843 FP of Thomas' "Amgélique et Médor" Paris.

1854 Death of Spanish soprano Joaquin Garcia. 

1856 Birth of composer Johann Müller.

1858 Birth of American composer Frederick Zech, Jr. 

1876 FP of Richard Wagner’s Centennial Inaugural March at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, PA. He was paid $5,000 for Festival March conducted by Theodore Thomas.

1880 Birth of Russian soprano Lydia Lipkowska in Bessarabia.

1881 Birth of English tenor Frank Mullings in Walsall.

1881 FP of Delibes revision of Offenbach's "Mam'zelle Moucheron"

1885 Birth of Italian tenor Giulio Crimi in Paterno. 

1888 Birth of Austrian-American composer Max Steiner in Vienna.

1894 Birth of baritone John Gross. 

1894 Birth of Ukrainian-American composer and conductor Dimitri Tiomkin.

1894 FP of Richard Strauss' opera Guntram Strauss conducting at the Hoftheater in Weimar.

1897 Death of English organist and composer William Thomas Best.

1898 Birth of American composer Herbert Elwell in Minneapolis.

1900 Death of composer Joseph Dubetz.

1904 FP of Hugo Alfvén's Midsommarvaka 'Midsummer Vigil', in Stockholm.

1905 Birth of composer Louis Kaufman.

1907 FP of Paul Dukas' opera Ariane et Barbe-Blue, with Georgette Leblanc in Paris.

1907 Birth of composer Harilaos Perpessas.

1913 FP of Draeseke's "Merlin" Gotha.

1912 Birth of composer Erik Jorgensen.

1914 Birth of English tenor Richard Lewis in Manchester. 

1914 Death of American soprano Lillian Nordica.

1914 FP of Humperdinck's "Die Marketenderin" Köln.

1916 Birth of American composer Milton Babbitt in Philadelphia.

1917 Death of tenor Ivan Alchevsky.

1919 Birth of Swiss conductor Peter Magg in St. Gallen.

1919 Birth of composer Tibor Sarai.

1920 Birth of Italian tenor Antonio Annaloro. 

1922 FP of Busser's "Les Noces corinthiennes" Paris.

1923 FP of Britten's "Owen Wingrave" on stage at Covent Garden.

1930 Birth of Bulgarian tenor Nicola Tagger in Pazarjic. 

1933 Death of soprano Selma Kurz. 

1935 Birth of American soprano Judith Beckman in Jamestown, ND. 

1935 Death of American bass Herbert Witherspoon.

1938 Birth of American composer Phil Winsor.

1938 Death of English Irish pianist and composer Hope Temple aka Dottie Davies in Folkestone. 

1938 Birth of Russian conductor and pianist Maxim Shostakovich.

1942 Birth of American composer Ingram Marshall in Mt. Vernon, NY.

1943 FP of R. Glière's Concerto for Coloratura Soprano and Orchestra, in Moscow.

1949 Death of Spanish-American baritone Emilio De Gogorza. 

1951 FP of John Cage's Imaginary Landscape No. 4 for 12 radios, in NYC.

1954 FP of Rautavaara's A Requiem in Our Time Cincinnati Brass Choir, Ernest N, Glover, conducting. First Prize in the Thor Johnson Composition Contest.

1957 FP of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2. USSR State Symphony, Nikolai Anosov conducting, composer's son, Maxim, soloist.

1957 FP of Cikker's "Beg Bajazid" Bratislava.

1958 Birth of American composer Lori Dobbins.

1959 Death of Italian tenor Giuseppe Taccani.

1960 FP of Karlheinze Stockhausen's Kontakte for electronic instruments, piano and percussion, in Cologne.

1962 FP of Fortner's "In seinem Garten liebt Don Perlimlín Belisa" 

1964 FP of Roy Harris' Epilogue to ‘Profiles in Courage' for orchestra, in Los Angeles, CA.

1968 Birth of Yugoslavian composer Milica Paranosic in Belgrade.

1967 Death of English tenor Arthur Carron. 

1974 Death of Italian soprano Valeria Manna.

1985 FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise for orchestra with bagpipe solo. Boston Pops conducted by John Williams.

1987 Death of German bass Wilhelm Strienz. 

1992 Death of Austrian mezzo-soprano Polly Batic. 

1997 FP of Philip Glass's opera The Marriage Between Zones Three, Four and Five. From the sci-fi novel by Doris Lessing, at the State Theater in Heidelberg.

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Women In Music Romantic Period

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Sweet Beginnings That Opened Happiness

The history of Coca-Cola all started back in 1886 when the curiosity of a pharmacist, Dr. John S. Pemberton of Atlanta, led him to the idea of creating a very distinctive tasting soft drink that could be sold a soda fountains. Dr. Pemberton made it all happen when decided to mix some flavored syrup he whipped up with carbonated water. Also with the help of his partner, bookkeeper, and good friend Frank M. Robinson who is credited with naming the beverage and designing the trademarked, distinct script, still used today, the Coca-Cola was born. This beverage held the spot as the world’s #1-selling sparkling beverage over the past few decades. Joseph Biedenharn who owned bottling machinery in the rear of his Mississippi soda fountain was the first to put Coca-Cola in bottles. A few years later, there were three entrepreneurs Benjamin Thomas, Joseph Whitehead, and John Lupton who bought the bottling rights, from then majority business owner Asa Candler, for one dollar. These three developed what then became known as the Coca-Cola worldwide bottling system. In the early days of Coca-Cola, the beverage was sold for five cents per glass; today they are sold at about $1.59 per bottle. In the early 1920s Coca-Cola became the first soft drink company to have a mascot when it began to use the 7′ tall polar bear for the beverage’s marketing. Also over the years it has been marketed in a slew of commercials by a vast array of celebrities from music hall performer Hilda Clark in 1898 and famous opera singer Lillian Nordica in 1904 to newly welcomed endorser Selena Gomez and international pop star and Coca-Cola Ambassador Taylor Swift. Coca-Cola is loved and consumed worldwide. It has become a huge powerhouse in the world of carbonated soft drinks and is continuing to steadily grow at a rapid pace. Who knows what is next for the company known as Coca-Cola?

https://www.worldofcoca-cola.com/about-us/coca-cola-history/