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Brother Of Edouard: RESZKE, Jean de, Polish opera singer: brother of Edouard de Reszke (q.v.) : b. Warsaw, 1850; d. 1925. He completed a law course at the Warsaw University; but, having been surrounded by a musical atmosphere in his home, and having sung as a boy in the cathedral, he decided upon singing as a career. He studied with Ciaffei and Cologni in Italy and made his debut in Venice in 1874 as Alfonso in La Favorita. In the two following years he appeared in London and Paris. Hitherto he had sung baritone roles, but in 1876 he retired to cultivate his natural voice whose register was that of a tenor.
RHADAMANTHUS, rad-a-man'thus, according to Greek legend, a son of Zeus and Europa, and brother of Minos, king of Crete. According to another tradition, Rhadamanthus laid the foundation of the Cretan code of laws, which his brother Minos completed. From fear of his brother he is said to have fled to Ocaleia in Boeotia, where he married Alcmene. In the belief of the Greeks, a spirit in the lower world continued the business of life; hence Rhadamanthus, after his death, was made a judge in the kingdom of Pluto, or the Islands oi Blessed, on account of the-justice of his life had for his associates Aeacus and Minos, name suggests an Egyptian origin of the myt.
"It's just how great Barbaro is,'' Brother Derek's trainer Dan Hendricks said.
Barbaro is the even-money favorite for the shortest of the Triple Crown races. Brother Derek, the talented California-bred who finished in a dead heat for fourth at the Derby, is the second choice at 3-1, with Sweetnorthernsaint at 4-1 off his seventh-place Derby finish. |
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