Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Liszt to Lehar. Frederick Loewe grew up in a musical-comedy world. His father, Edmund Loewe, a Vienna-born operetta tenor, was the first Prince Danilo in the Berlin production of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow, the Fair Lady of its day, was also Berlin's first Chocolate Soldier. Fritz's mother Rosa was the daughter of a Viennese Baumeister (builder) and a sometime actress who used lipstick and cigarettes in a never-never age when young ladies only pinched their cheeks for color, also added color to her life with a swift and exotic imagination...
...picked up a three-string vielle (old-style fiddle) and joined two other instrumentalists and a singer in an expert per" formance of four songs by Guillaume de Machaut (circa 1300-77). Then he sat down and. listened to the world premiere of his own new work-Motets for Tenor and Piano. Thus in a single evening last week, during the Berlin Festival, Paul Hindemith, 64, got a rare chance to wear all his musical caps-as composer, conductor, musicologist and instrumentalist...
...Francisco's hungry 1, strapping, curly-haired Gregory Millar used to appear with his friend Mort Sahl, belting out pop songs in a voice vaguely reminiscent of Mario Lanza's. At the New York Philharmonic's first Saturday-night concert, Tenor Millar was sitting in a box at Carnegie Hall listening to Conductor-Pianist Leonard Bernstein conclude a fal tering performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1. Minutes later, and without warning, Millar was on the podium conducting the Philharmonic himself...
...many ways typical of the tenor of the whole campaign. Kennedy sat with schoolboy composure, taking notes and speaking calmly. Nixon added to the annals of history's best bloopers with a remark about solving the farm problem by abolishing the farmers. And at Agassiz, three 'Cliffies fell asleep...
Died. Jussi Bjoerling, 49, renowned tenor, a Metropolitan Opera fixture since 1938, who, from his 1929 operatic debut in his native Sweden to his recent re cording of Turandot, displayed a continually improving, distinctive and beautiful voice; of a heart attack; in Siar, Sweden. The heart seizure was at least his fourth since 1959, including one in March at London's Covent Garden while singing Rodolfo in La Boheme. With the Queen Mother in the audience, Bjoerling insisted on completing the performance after only a 30-minute break...