Word: sumac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles, Peruvian Songbird Yma Sumac, 35, exercising all the resources of her four-octave voice, starred in a choice bit of opera bouffe in three acts. Featured opposite her: her estranged husband, Moises Vivanco, 38, with a supporting cast of two Inca folk dancers, one confused harp player, three private eyes, one happy collie, a carload of cops. It began in January when Yma's husband lost a paternity suit brought by Yma's former secretary, and was declared the father of the secretary's twin girls. Yma sued for divorce. The action...
...Soprano Lucrezia Agujari, which rose almost three octaves from middle D; the freak voice of the 19th century's Eugenia Mela, a woman who sang tenor; the incongruous bass voice of a three-year-old boy in Prague in 1936; and, more recently, the voice of Peruvian Yma Sumac, whose singing voice covers four octaves...
Jenny, like Agujari and Sumac, is no freak. Her range is considerably greater than most,† her voice is sweet and powerful, and she has it under reliable, effortless command. (She can cover almost an additional two octaves, but with little musical value.) In her tenor range she can sound either like a contralto or a real male tenor. Some critics find Jenny's voice a bit dry, but this can be overcome, she believes, before she makes her professional debut. She does not plan to make it for about two years. Until then, she will continue to study...
...tight by writing music to fit the man-imposed limitation on man's voice. Mozart composed killing coloratura arias for his high-singing sisters-in-law, Josepha and Aloysia Weber; Giuseppe Colla supplied music for his wife-to-be, Agujari; Moises Vivanco supplies it .for his wife Yma Sumac. Jennifer Johnson is now looking for someone to write music for Jennifer Johnson...
...Lady Bracknell. The movies caught her imagination early. What she saw on the screen she became in real life -at least for the rest of the day. After the weekly Weissmuller, she and her two brothers played Tarzan in the sumac ("I was an ape"). As the movie-madness grew, she became Vivien Leigh, Ginger Rogers, Olivia de Havilland. She filled dozens of scrapbooks with pictures of her favorites. The high point of her girlhood came when a schoolboy said she reminded him of Bette Davis. Gone With the Wind she saw 13 times, and in one month...