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While few, if any, figures in the " high " performing arts were based in Seattle in this era, the city was definitely on the national and international arts touring circuit.

According to Paul de Barros, in just the single year 1925 Seattle witnessed performances by Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, and operatic bass Feodor Chaliapin ; Hungarian composer and pianist Ernő Dohnányi ; African American lyric tenor Roland Hayes ; and Austrian violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler.