Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...singing teacher with the claim of having taught Italy's Queen Margherita how to play the mandolin. In 1915 he took his first plunge: a production of Pagliacci at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in which he sang the part of Canio himself. As a tenor, he was a spectacular bust. But he took in $7,000 at the box office...
...went there, great Russian violinists were scarcer than caviar on a peasant's table. By the time he left Europe, in 1919, to spend his declining years at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, he had made the term "Russian violinist" as much a commonplace as "Italian tenor." Critics sometimes complained that Auer's Russians sacrificed elegance and emotion for pyrotechnics and schmalz. But it had to be admitted that nobody could touch Auer for teaching luscious tone quality, machinelike fleetness and accuracy of fingerwork...
THESE ERRORS OF FACT, GLARING AS THEY ARE, ARE NOT THE MOST SERIOUS CHARGE WHICH CAN BE LEVELED AT THIS ARTICLE. THAT CHARGE IS THE ACCUSATION, IMPLICIT IN THE SUBHEAD AND GENERAL TENOR OF YOUR STORY, THAT THESE MEN ARE SEEKING AN EASY, WELL-PAID REFUGE FROM DANGER AND FROM THEIR DUTY TO DEFEND THEIR COUNTRY...
...years since he left Ohio's Wilberforce University to become an entertainer in the speakeasies of Kansas City, massive, coal-black Jimmy Rushing has been singing blues and swinging his fat. His hot-metal tenor, edgy enough to cut a brass team, and his unexpectedly light footwork have brought him fame among the old-style gin-garden chanteurs...
...Francisco. As the ship rocked and pitched in the tremendous currents from the gorge, the first strains of Christmas carols began to penetrate the static of our tight earphones. We could make out a beautiful chorus of clear, feminine sopranos. The static cleared away briefly and a ringing male tenor took up Come, All Ye Faithful. Then there was an organ, and after that the entire chorus joined him. After that there was some news and a commentator telling how we were winning the war. We didn't listen to that...