Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McLean's before, but not the guests of honor. Mrs. McLean's parties are different now. She serves California wine, usually a clear soup, frequently skips the fish course. The Trumans like cards and music, so there will be bridge. Pianist Evelyn Tynor will play, and Tenor Lauritz Melchior will be there...
Beniamino Gigli, moonfaced, huffy-puffy Italian tenor, whose onetime Nazi friends have given him some uneasy moments since Rome's liberation (TIME, June 19), forked over 50,000 lire ($500) on a threat of kidnapping. He gave the money to one Giuseppe Albano, "Rome's public enemy No. 1," who then sent three men out to kidnap him anyway. The police, tipped off, captured the three henchmen and killed Albano...
Enrico Caruso Jr., son of the late great tenor, took a late plunge into what he hopes will be a "serious singing career," and did it the hard way-amid the smoke, clatter and twirling bare legs of a Buffalo nightspot. One conscientious nightclub reporter, mindful of his duty toward an illustrious musical name, gravely noted in Tenor Caruso's version of the Flower Song from Carmen a tendency to "flat in the upper register." But everybody agreed, after hearing Caruso's What a Difference a Day Made, that his schmalz was terrific...
Enrico Caruso Jr., 39, sometime playboy, onetime cinema bit-player, vocalist, who resembles his late, great tenor father in name only, announced that he would begin singing for his supper soon in Buffalo and Detroit nightclubs...
...manual was worked out by U.S.O. Music Division Chief Raymond Kendall, with Houghton Mifflin's William Spaulding. It is to be used in connection with nine recordings of popular barbershop numbers. At first the record plays a selection emphasizing the lead, tenor and bass successively, to give the G.I. student the idea. Then it supplies the missing parts, so that the G.I. can learn in turn to sing lead, tenor and bass. By the time he is through the cycle, the G.I. has become an all-round barbershop expert, able to sound off, at the clearing of a throat...