Enrico Caruso

Library of Congress and Sony Music team for 'National Jukebox' free streaming of vintage recordings

2011-05-10 16:35:46

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Sleep where the legends slept in grand old California hotels

2010-12-05 00:00:00

"Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole," British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." And, I might add, place to place. There's something special about bedding down where Albert Einstein, Marilyn...

How music became an industry: on 'Selling Sounds'

2009-09-17 08:53:49

Monday's TV Highlights: Kelly Cutrone in a new series

2010-01-31 21:34:45

‘I Laugh, Ho, Ho, at Black Hand,’ Caruso Says

2010-03-06 04:32:58

Review: Isabel Bayrakdarian and the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra

2008-10-07 00:00:00

Once they've hit the big time, opera stars have often used their platforms to explore and promote their national heritages. Enrico Caruso belted Neapolitan songs, Jussi Bj�rling sang Swedish songs, Jessye Norman performed spirituals, Pl�cido Domingo...

Darwin's Engineer

2005-06-05 00:00:00

Robert K. Graham believed that modern welfare programs encouraged imbeciles to reproduce. As a result, he complained, "retrograde humans" were overtaking the intelligent minority, causing the evolutionary regression of mankind and increasing the...

Note Worthy in Carlsbad

2001-12-30 00:00:00

Where do you want to go for your birthday weekend? asked my husband, Lauren. Carlsbad, I answered. You're kidding; we live here, he said. Yup, I said. And I never get to play tourist in my own town. I rarely walk on the beach or along the city's...

It's a perfect week to preserve my piles

2012-04-23 13:58:00

This is National Preservation Week. Which means that, if you are a librarian, you are probably already setting out the chips and mixing up a big punch bowl of sloe gin fizzes. Yeah man, this is the week that, according to The Washington Post, we call...

Nashville offers a music bonanza

2010-04-04 00:00:00

— Nashville's "Music City" nickname has always been pronounced with a Southern accent. Nashville is, after all, the home of the Grand Ole Opry, the stomping grounds of Hank Williams and a magnet for talented country artists. But a person can...

Public Record for February 13

2011-02-14 10:08:00

BOYLE DISTRICT COURT Cases handled recently in Boyle District Court, listed by name, charge, fine and jail sentence, where applicable, include the following. Court costs also were assessed in most cases. Ages and addresses are listed if available....

"Amore: The Story of Italian American Song" by Mark Rotella

2010-09-20 14:44:23

"AMORE: The Story of Italian American Song" By Mark RotellaFarrar, Straus & Giroux, 320 pages, $26.00 1947 was a splendid year for Italian Americans. For decades, Italian immigrants, especially those from the poorer southern regions, were feared,...

performing "Una furtiva lagrima" from Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore" as a recurring motif.

2008-08-26 15:46:21

The Garden Court restaurant inside the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Famed opera singer Enrico Caruso was staying at the hotel when the 1906 quake hit.

2006-04-15 20:53:31

A pedestrian's reflection is caught in a brass plaque in front of the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Famed opera singer Enrico Caruso was staying at the hotel when the 1906 quake hit.

2006-04-15 20:33:57