Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laurltz Melchior, the Met's heroic tenor, fought heroically through a blizzard to sing in Bloomington, Ind., but it was no use. He tried to fly from Chicago, but the planes were grounded. So he set out by auto. An hour later he was stuck in a snowdrift. Bloomington presently heard from him by phone, too late. He had discovered that he was fighting his way toward Bloomington, Ill., 160 miles away from Indiana's Bloomington...
Handel: Messiah (Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent conducting; Huddersfield Choral Society, with Isobel Baillie, soprano, Gladys Ripley, contralto, James Johnston, tenor and Norman Walker, basso; Columbia, two albums-38 sides, $22.50). An outstanding performance but not quite as good as the version done by Sir Thomas Beecham more than 15 years ago. Performance: orchestra and chorus, excellent; soloists, fair...
...almost before the reader knows it, years & years have passed and Chloe is drifting to her death in Latin America, having made derelict love to all comers, including an Argentine tenor, a Nicaraguan politico and a Grace Line purser. Readers of drugstore novels, as soon as they spot the heroine's name, will know this is for them; for Chloe is to this season's novels and soap operas what Sandra and Brenda were to the trash of previous years...
...other four sides the gauntleted hand of Director Leonard Feather, whose outlook on hot music is in general futuristic, can be detected. Tenor saxophonist Don Byas, and violinist-trumpeter Roy Nance, vie with each other to see who can try the most technical innovations in sixteen minutes. Nance even drags in a little pizzicato on one of his opening violin choruses. Through it all, however, snatches of Heywood may be heard which, though a bit incongruous in such company are responsible for whatever merit there is in this half...
...Minerva; Superfilm) is an Italian-made movie which juxtaposes the tyrannies and passions of Puccini's opera, La Tosca, and those of the Nazi domination of Rome. The story: a famous tenor hides a Polish Jew and a wounded British agent from the SS. His sweetheart [Anna Magnani], a famous soprano, misunderstanding his secretiveness, inadvertently betrays him through her jealousy. While the SS closes in, the Italian lovers sonorously sweat out La Tosca's similar story on the stage of Rome's Royal Opera House...