Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Alessandro Bonci, 70, onetime tenor for the Metropolitan, Manhattan and Chicago Opera Companies, temperamental rival of the great Enrico Caruso; in Rome. Famed for his roles of Rodolfo in Puccini's La Boheme, Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Count Almaviva in Rossini's Barber of Seville, diminutive Bonci was long on technique, short on volume, made up in lyrical effect what he lacked in lung power...
...from the Treasury bench rose round, pink-faced Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood-known to the House as "The Cherub." In a clear tenor voice he piped: "What I want is cash." And for the next 91 minutes, speaking from notes written in his own hand, taped up in little bundles, one for each phase of his speech, he presented Great Britain with the heaviest budget in her history...
Many an oldtime whiskey tenor crouched closer to his radio one night last week. Reason: the finals of the Second Annual National Championship for Barber Shop Quartets, broadcast from the New York World's Fair. All week winners of sectional contests had crooned, bleated and harmonized before a tableful of solemn judges. The performance to beat, all knew, was the precise, satin-smooth Just a Dream of You and Mandy Lee of last year's champs, the mustachioed, white-aproned Phillips "66" Barflies of Bartlesville, Okla. Most favored challengers were the Flat Foot Four, a quartet of Oklahoma...
...sometimes compete with the piccolos, roaring lions double in bass. Last Sunday night Bizet's Carmen opened another Zoo season. There are no great Carmens today. One of the most persistent, bouncing Italian Bruna Castagna, gave her usual interpretation of the gypsy who seduces Soldier Don José (Tenor Raoul Jobin, Metropolitan debutant of last season), then gives him what Broadway calls the brusheroo...
...written by two residents on San Quentin Penitentiary... Heard Ovie Alston's band playing at an obscure ballroom a short time ago in New York, and they certainly, deserve better work. Most of the band being out of the old Claude Hopkins gang, they play fine stuff, especially the tenor man, first trumpet man Alston, and the second trumpet. Both the latter, by the way, have something unusual-clear easy tones and unhurried, subtle styles...