Word: carusos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cornell last week, but remains the top contender for the championship. The Quakers are led by captain John Wideman, a Rhodes Scholar, and Bob Purdy, both of whom were All-Ivy second team selections last season. Wideman plays the back court with senior Sid Amirs and junior Ray Caruso, who has been the leading scorer of late. Eight of Penn's 12 lettermen are in the front court, and in addition to Purdy, who finished seventh in league scoring last season, the top returnees are J.D. Graham, Dave Robinson, and Jeff Sturm...
...were naturally baritone or bass. And the tenor must sing much of the time toward the top of his range and volume, subjecting his vocal cords to cruel and unusual punishment. Small wonder that tenors are almost always in short supply and often have king-sized egos ("Good," "Marvelous," Caruso used to write below his name as he endorsed his Met check for each performance...
...with emo tional fervor, capable of a lyrical legato or a ringing fortissimo. Tucker uses that voice with precise intelligence, lightening and darkening his tone to convey a whole range of feeling. Among the roles that he has not yet sung at the Met are two that contributed to Caruso's fame: Canio in Pagliacci and the old man Eleazar of Halevy's La Juive, which has not been given at the Met since Martinelli sang it in 1936. Explains Tucker: "Pagliacci tears every fiber of your body. I'm still growing. When...
...provincial city of Parma (pop. 89,300) harbors the toughest opera audience in Italy. Local legend has it that the great Enrico Caruso, singing L'Elisir d'Amore, was once all but booed from the stage in a performance that did not please Parma's exacting gallery. Next day a cabbie refused to take him to the station. The hack driver's reason: he did not want to dirty his carriage with such a bad singer...
...thirteen years since the plastic LP era began, no classical record has exhibited the sales allure of such old champions as Enrico Caruso's 78-r.p.m. performance of Vesti la giubba from Pagliacci, which sold well over a million copies. But last week Pianist Van Cliburn joined Caruso and a handful of other 78-r.p.m. giants, became the first artist to sell 1,000,000 classical LPs. His recording: Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, which captured first prize for him in the spring of 1958 in Moscow's International Tchaikovsky Competition and which he recorded...