Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judged from an aesthetic standpoint (with due apologies to Mr. Copland for using that word here) the band is not altogether unbearable. Once in a while, if you listen patiently, you can dissect from the wild conglomeration of over-arrangements an interesting tenor chorus or a refreshing break by a trumpet or trombone. In fact most of the solos are really worthwhile in comparison to the greater portion of the music heard north of 125th St. So if you're tired of Frank- the Radcliffe-conception-of-virility-Sinatra and your soul cries our for some musical satisfaction, fall...
...Congress declared war, and missed 148 out of 239 roll-calls in seven months of 1942). But he managed to be present enough to distinguish himself in the making of intemperate attacks. These he delivered in a gravely falsetto voice which the Oregon Journal likes to call "a high tenor of protest. " High spot of the campaign came when Holman answered accusations of antiSemitism. Said he: "Now why would I be antiSemitic? My own father was an Englishman. I have relatives in England." No New Dealer. Wayne Morse, a progressive Republican, had to convince skeptical GOPsters that his years...
With only a week more of opera to go, Manhattan's Metropolitan last week turned up its biggest surprise of the season. He was a brand-new and authentic example of a very rare operatic commodity: a Wagnerian Heldentenor (heroic tenor). His name: Emery Darcy...
Like all true Heldentenore (the Met's only first-rate example in years has been Lauritz Melchior), Darcy combines the lusty, ringing power of a baritone with a tenor's high range. When Darcy stepped into Melchior's place to sing Parsifal, he got a critical ovation...
...married his Chicago teacher, Mme. Lucie Lenox. After a few years in midwestern vaudeville, singing things like Wagon Wheels complete with cart effect, he tried out as a baritone but failed to win the Metropolitan Auditions of the Air. A year later (in 1940) he tried out as a tenor. This time he won a Metropolitan contract...