Word: bassos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Ezio Pinza, 48, big, curly-haired Italian basso of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, who used to be a six-day bicycle racer; and Doris Neal Leak, 22; at Larchmont...
...Bartered Bride. Managed by tall, lean C. David Hocker, musically directed by short, swart Sylvan Levin, the Philadelphia troupe has 22 singers, average age about 27, all but one homegrown. The simple fooleries of The Bartered Bride, set to simple, polka-dotted tunes, showed off some notable young talent: Basso Luke Matz (music supervisor in the Unionville, Pa. public school), as a jovial village marriage broker; Soprano Frances Greer (Philadelphia church singer), as the unwilling betrothed of the village simpleton (Tenor John Toms, voice teacher); Tenor Edward Nyborg (Philadelphia tailor's helper), as the boy who finally gets...
Attending a performance at San Francisco's Opera House, portly, dignified Russian-American Basso Alexander Kipnis remained seated long after others had left. Not until mechanics took his chair apart, freeing his coattails, did Basso Kipnis depart...
...suggest. Indeed, the New York Better Business Bureau asked the Committee to moderate its claims (which it did). But the Committee's discs are by no means bad, may well increase U. S. music appreciation. Among the recording artists are Metropolitan Opera Tenors Armand Tokatyan and Raoul Jobin, Basso Norman Cordon. Among the operas so far released, Carmen is the best; Faust is a series of seemingly arbitrary selections. For each opera the Post's Musicritic Samuel Chotzinoff has written readable notes...
...Berlin specializes in skits such as Schmidt & Smith, wherein Smith, a gouty Englishman, played by Lord Haw-Haw, who drops his baritone voice to basso range for the part, is forever getting bested by calm, confident German Schmidt...