Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...languishes in her absence. Mr. Lucian Russell is a likeable fellow as Robin Oakapple (that is to say, the real Ruddigore, only in disguise, you know). And Mr. A. Thompson, who plays Oakapple's foster brother, Richard Dauntless, makes the most of one of Gilbert's few comic lyric tenor roles, and achieves a creditable hornpipe. So too, does Mr. Edward Schmookler, the villainous Sir Despard Murgatroyd (Oak apple's real brother, if you get what I mean). Schmookler is got up to resemble Mr. Hyde, and he rubs his hands, rolls his eyes, and flashes his tooth to great...
...works came first and last. Bach's Cantata 161, 'Komm, du susse Todesstunde' (1715) matched the efficiency of Mlle. Boulanger's conducting with its extreme economy of harmonic movement and accompaniment. Under her restraint, the ensemble of some twenty singers and twenty instrumentalists managed to sound personal, even intimate. Tenor Karl Dan Sorenson filled the museum court-yard with his clear and accurate voice; in her second solo, Contralto Jenneke Barton did the same...
Carissimi's popular 'Historia de Jepthe' (1645) brought the program to a well-tailored conclusion. Major soloist for the evening, Marguerite Paquet (alto) gave the traditionally tenor Historious part an impressively smooth and certain performance. Mr. Sorenson again delivered a fine solo...
...embellishing each role with small dramatic touches of his own-a twitch here, a little shuffle of surprise there-that bring character to life. Son of a well-to-do Roman family, De Paolis made his debut as the Duke in Rigoletto at Bologna in 1919, later sang tenor leads at virtually every major house in Europe. But, he says, "I never had a large voice; I knew that I could go on being a tenor of the second rank forever -but suppose I could become the best character actor in the world?" He made the switch...
...April 15 Directions '62 (ABC, 3-3:30 p.m.). The story of the Jewish quest for religious freedom, symbolized in the Exodus from Egypt and commemorated in the Passover. The Open Door (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). Tenor Jan Peerce, accompanied by Alfredo Antonini and the CBS Orchestra, sings songs marking the observance of Passover. Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 6-7:30 p.m.). Kim Hunter, James Daly and Dennis King in a play based on the trial of Jesus before Pontius Pilate and the freeing of Barabbas, the thief. Repeat. Color. The Twentieth Century...