Word: basses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closed after five performances, but it has already been recorded by RCA Victor, and NBC intends to produce it on television, which may provide a better setting for the work's small-screen passions. Golovin's best feature: its cast, including Franca Duval, Patricia Neway and the bass-baritone find of the year, 22-year-old Richard Cross, who left college (Iowa's Cornell) only 18 months ago, but sings Donato with power and conviction...
College football's closest counterpart to Cleveland's Jimmy Brown is Richard Lee Bass, 189-lb. Negro halfback from little (enrollment: 1,670) College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. Playing his first full season without crippling injuries, Dick Bass has performed the considerable feat of becoming football's leading ground-gainer on a team that gives him little real blocking, has gained 700 yds. in six games (Pacific lost three of them). Last week as C.O.P. lost to Boston College 25-12, Bass returned the opening kickoff 72 yds., would have scored had not an official...
...splendor of Tebaldi's voice lies not so much in its range as in the evenness with which she negotiates that range (she claims from the first C in the bass to high C). She has the unusual gift of moving from one register to another with no perceptible shift in the quality of her singing, which is almost always unerringly accurate and clear, rarely marred by the edginess or brassy reverberations that afflict some singers. Her special glory is the spun-out, floating high note-which Tebaldi achieves, seemingly without effort, by paying out huge breaths in small...
...Tebaldi, life at the top of the operatic world has proved only slightly different from the life she knew on the way up. "Outside the theater," says Renata, "I feel that nothing in me has changed since adolescence." Although she has had several vague romantic attachments (including one to Bass Nicola Rossi-Lemeni), she has never seriously considered marriage. Says Callas, wife of wealthy Giovanni Battista Meneghini: "What I really wish for her is that she find some wonderful person to marry. Love completes a woman; her art would be even better...
Cesare Siepi, 34, bass. Born in Milan, Siepi started out to be a boxer, switched to singing during the war, was brought to the U.S. by the Met's Bing. An excellent actor, he is particularly effective in the roles of such sorrowing old men as Boris and Don Carlo's Philip II, has also won acclaim for his Don Giovanni and The Barber's Basilio. His resonant, warm bass and trim good looks make him the leading contender for Ezio Pizza's place...