Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself acknowledged in another passage of his Evenings with the Orchestra, the all-powerful tenor is anything but a hardy breed. Tenor voices are comparatively rare: in one study, made in Germany, more than three-quarters of the male voices 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...
...Music in Toronto heard of him and gave him a three-year scholarship, starting a career that led him at last to Covent Garden and a stunning success as Aeneas in Berlioz' The Trojans (TIME, June 17, 1957). A firm believer in the equal importance of acting and singing. Vickers is passionate and convincing as Otello, Don Jose in Carmen, Florestan in Fidelio and Siegmund in Die Walkure. His big, shining voice, surging over the orchestra, would seem ideal for Wagner, but Vickers is in no hurry to become a Heldentenor. "I love Wagner," says he, "but I want...
...Inexperience is a drag." said Oscar -and got to work again. Now deep into a second musical. Oscar writes all morning, sings most of the night. His voice has found only a rented room in the range it occupies, but he has such command over it that he can blithely abandon any melodic confines and sing out with a freedom possessed by no other jazz singer except Ray Charles...
...them amiable enough figures in his life. But the accept ance of his music, the success of his record albums, the outlook for kicks in the future - all are too bright to take seriously. "The other day a burlesque girl came by my room and asked if she could sing Mr. Kicks in her act," Oscar says...
...Krokodiloes, as everyone knows, are Hasty Pudding boys who sing songs. There are some 16 of them, and they have just recorded an album (of 18 songs) called "Warm and Cool...." Most of the songs on this record, at least as arranged and blended by the Kroks, are really neither warm nor cool--just nice...