Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soloists will be--Soprano: Cynthia Sweeney, Radcliffe '50; Alto: Marion Hawkes, New England Conservatory; Tenor; Robert Gartside, Harvard '50; and Bass: Paul Tibbetts, Harvard...
...gave Dufay's Magnificat in the Eighth Mode a more forceful interpretation than the other old works on the program. Had her treatment been more Gregorian and less like Bach, I think she would have achieved a more impressive effect. Robert Gartside's tenor solo had a harshness quite congenial with the mystical quality of the work; in chorus parts, however, his strong voice too often stands out over all others...
Throughout the evening, each Club tried to out-do the other and make very clear who had the noblest tenor, the most resounding bass. Like the teams that followed them Saturday, the singers were "up" for this performance, and as one group finished their stint and marched off the stage, their rivals would do them one better and attack the first song with just a little more bravado and spirit. This successive trumping went on until the home club sang "Fair Harvard"; Yale had no more alma maters left and the concert was over...
Berlioz: Requiem (Emile Passani Choir and Orchestra, Jean Fournet conducting; Columbia, 22 sides). "If I were threatened with the destruction of the whole of my works save one," wrote Hector Berlioz, "I would crave mercy for the Requiem." Seldom performed because of its huge size (300 voices, a tenor soloist, the equivalent of four small orchestras, four brass bands and organ), it is one of the great choral works of all time. The performance, an excellent one, was recorded in France during the war. Recording: good...
Wall Streeters, who had had a dozen reasons for the market's slump during the summer, now had another dozen reasons for the rise. There was "a better tenor to foreign cables," it was only "the preelection rally," etc., etc. But there was also reason to believe that investors, who had mistrusted the solidity of the boom, were having their minds changed by fresh evidence...