Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through the classics. The trouble was, none of the old boys knew how to start an opera right. They had a rousing overture, the curtain rose, and a bunch of minor characters went into some tedious, scene-setting song. What Hollywood wanted was an overture, curtain, and zowie-a tenor aria for Lauritz Melchior...
Liszt in Technicolor. Of the many "serious" musicians to trek to Hollywood (among them Lawrence Tibbett, Lily Pons, Risë Stevens), only Jose Iturbi and Wagnerian Tenor Lauritz Melchior have made the grade, by their ability to be themselves on the screen, to get off foolish lines with M-G-M stars Jimmy Durante and Kathryn Grayson...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Metropolitan Opera Tenor James Melton sings some light, some heavy music as guest on one of radio's better musical half-hours...
Wagner: Bridal Chamber Scene from Lohengrin (Helen Traubel, soprano. Kurt Baum, tenor, and the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). In this long-winded honeymoon conversation, Traubel ducks a few of the high notes but makes up for it with the lower ones. Performance: good...
Freddy Martin does not jazz up the classics; he waters them down, so that they are simple enough for his own treacly tenor sax, and the fiddles in his 19-piece band. This diluted sugar has helped draw 1,000,000 dancers to the famed Cocoanut Grove at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel in the five years he has played there. He would like to record Debussy's Clair de Lune, but it will be over the copyright owners' dead bodies. Says he: "You've got to give the public something it can hang onto-some real...