Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest soloist: Met Tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini...
...Trace, born in Chicago 44 years ago, once thought that baseball would be his career. But he gave up ball-playing when he concluded that he could never hit .300. He knew how to bat the drums and sing a little-"I was what you call a dramatic tenor, singing The Road to Mandalay and stuff like that." After writing songs and "running material" fof WLS' National Barn Dance, he formed his own band. His first job: playing for Fan Dancer Sally Rand at Chicago's 1933 World's Fair...
Last year Tenor Beniamino Gigli heard María Helena, invited her to sing Mimi with him at a charity performance in the Teatro Presidente Alvear. There, talentwise Cirilo Grassi Díaz, manager of the Teatro Colón, heard her, offered her a chance at the Colón this season...
Opera's Lauritz Melchior, in Berlin on a song tour, asked the Russians please to give him back the antique silver he had stored there during the war. (The Russians, said he, had taken it over from the Danish consul.) Tenor Melchior seemed to be out 200 pounds of silver. "The Russians," he reported presently, "pulled our noses...
...last week Astrid was enjoying something no singer ever gets too much of: bravos. Mexico City's new opera season had run into trouble. The visiting conductor was stewing about the hot trumpeters and nightclub fiddlers the musicians' union had sent him; a leading tenor was feuding with the conductor. Could the chaotic season be steadied by a singer whom Mexican operagoers especially liked? The Opera Nacional had persuaded Astrid to come down and try some popular Italian operas. As usual, Astrid, who had never sung an Italian role, was glad to help...