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...high (19,500 for Pianist Van Cliburn) and not far behind Trumpeter Louis Armstrong's (21,000 in 1957). But she was still an octave or two behind Lewisohn's champion crowd pullers: Harry Belafonte (over 25,000 in 1956) and Ezio (South Pacific) Pinza, whose virile basso cantante and brawny frame also drew over 25,000 fans...
Bravo Giovanni offers a great voice in a tiny void. Metropolitan Opera Basso Cesare Siepi gets the chance to sing a menu. As a display of the conspicuous consumption of talent, this might have staggered Thorstein Veblen. What playgoers will find themselves conspicuously consuming at this musical comedy is their own time...
Frank Knox memorial fellowships, providing a year of study in one of the nations of the British Commonwealth, have been awarded to eight seniors: Keith H. Basso, Joseph L. Featherstone, Mitchell H. Gall, Burt P. Johnson Jr., Robert J. Klein, Norton D. Lang, Peter W. Stanley, and Curtis D. McFarland. Students are selected for the awards, established in honor of Frank Knox '42, on the basis of academic and extra-curricular achievements...
...while Corelli's extracurricular antics-he punched a spectator he thought had insulted him, stabbed Basso Boris Christoff with a stage sword-drew attention away from his sizable gifts as a singer. His large, solid dramatic tenor is darker than most, has almost a baritone's quality; at his best Corelli uses it with an animal vitality and drive that leave no audience bored. In Italy bobby-soxers periodically mob him at the stage door, and there is every evidence that he may do for tenors what Ezio Pinza did for bassos. Says he: "I attract mostly young...
Side One swings around the Far East. Nippon Bashi, one of three songs representing Japan, exploits the Glee Club's ability to get louder very slowly and gradually, over a long period of time--a sort of basso "Bolero." The Club stops (musically) in Korea, China, The Philippines, and Thailand, but it sounds as if it has never escaped the office of G. Schirmers in New York. Only the Indian anthem by Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Khoro Bayu Boy Bege ("The Optimist Against Odds") breaks loose: a vigorous unison from start to stop suggests the musically muscular Soviet Army Chorus, with...