Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Claus, an Easter bunny, Father Time and Rosie O'Grady. He has made entrances by dog sled, donkey, horse chariot, kiddie car and parachute. He often coaxes the unexpected out of his guest stars: Gracie Fields sang for him in a bathing suit, and the Metropolitan's Tenor Lauritz Melchior in blackface...
...well trained by Professor Woodworth. They made no slips at all Friday afternoon, and the one minor error, Saturday, when, in one passage Kousse- vitzky cued them in a measure too late, was not their fault. The quartet of soloists included Frances Yeend, soprane; Eunice Alberts, contralto; David Lloyd, tenor, and James Pease, bass. Mr. Pease has a rather rough voice, and his intonation in the opening recitative was not very accurate. But the singing of the other three soloists was fine. The blending of the voices in the ensemble was especially noteworthy...
...Radio City Music Hall (billing himself as Robert Field). For a while he was master of ceremonies in Manhattan's big, lowbrow nightclub, Leon & Eddie's. But for a man who wanted to get into opera, he seemed to be making no progress at all. By 1947, Tenor Rounseville, aged 30, found himself in vaudeville...
Last week, Tenor Rounseville finally got success, of the kind he wanted. With financial help from his home town of Attleboro, Mass., he had worked hard with a teacher, spent the summer of 1948 at Boris Goldovsky's opera school at Tanglewood. After a student production of the Fountain Scene from Pelléas and Mélisande there, he landed a chance to sing Pélleas in the New York City Opera's closing performance last year. Ace French Repertory Conductor Jean Morel liked Rounseville's big, wide-ranging tenor voice, taught him to sing...
After the performance last week, Tenor Rounseville and wife Ann sat up till 3 a.m. for the reviews. They were worth waiting for. Wrote the New York Times's Olin...