Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...married to a former Follies girl (Rosemary Wallace) whom he taught to fence, he presides over his own Salle d'Armes in Manhattan's Savoy-Plaza, where his pupils include several U.S. fencing champions and a handful of celebrities: Tenor Richard Crooks, Writer Paul Gallico, Actress Lillian Gish. As a finished world champion, Nadi finds it unnecessary to train, likes to spend his evenings in expensive nightclubs...
...Hawkins' tenor you probably know by now. Ben Webster was originally scheduled but fell ill. For a change, I'd personally rather hear...
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Vienna Philharmonic, Bruno Walter conducting, with Kerstin Thorborg, contralto, and Charles Kullman, tenor; Columbia; 14 sides). A reissue of Columbia's 1936 recording, when the Vienna Philharmonic was still at its pre-Nazi best. Mahler's symphonic setting of the verses of Li Tai Po and other Chinese immortals remains one of the few great musical compositions of the 20th Century, one of the most tragic works in all musical literature...
Album of Danish Songs (Lauritz Melchior, tenor; Columbia; 4 sides). A group of appealing ditties sung with masculine ardor by the finest of contemporary heroic tenors...
...Wedgwood Room is Victor Borge (pronounced Borguh) as the "unmelancholy Dane," who arrived in the U.S. two years ago not knowing a word of English. Borge's droll, suave, teasing act, full of casually crazy asides ("T.ie tenor comes in in single file") culminates expertly at the piano...