Word: tenore
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...couldn't dance. He didn't sing. And he bungled jokes. His malaprops and mannerisms endlessly inspired comic impersonators. "Let's hear it for the Lord's Prayer," he once croaked, after a tenor had sung it. During a lavish encomium to the Supremes he forgot the trio's name and concluded lamely: "Here are the girls." Looking somewhat like a Great Stone Face transplanted from Easter Island to Broadway, he would rock back and forth onstage, hands across chest or clutching his kidneys, while in baleful voice he introduced a succession of comedians, jugglers, rock bands and animal acts...
...Lounguine's drama is remarkable as the first (and perhaps last?) post-glasnost film from the Soviet Union. Lounguine proudly airs Russia's dirty laundry: the pervasive alcoholism, the anti-Semitism, the suspicion and self-destruction. Rock star Piotr Mamonov has a snaky charisma as the musician, and American tenor-sax legend Hal Singer blesses the project with his presence. At last May's Cannes Film Festival, Taxi Blues won the best-director prize. Today it has both news and nostalgic value. We can hear it wail, in a minor key, from the sweet and recent past: the early days...
Suddath claims that Schwarzkopf, with a reported I.Q. of 170, could easily have graduated first in his class of 480, instead of 43rd, "but he did a lot of other things except study." He wrestled and played a bit of tennis and football. He sang tenor and conducted the chapel choir and loved listening to what Suddath calls the "uplifting" martial music of Wagner and Tchaikovsky's cannonading 1812 Overture -- "the sort that makes you feel on top of the world...
...Complete Caruso (RCA Victor). The master's voice: Enrico Caruso's matchless discography (1902-20), now released on 12 CDs. At home in everything from Puccini arias to George M. Cohan's Over There, Caruso continues to be revered, rightly, as the greatest Italian tenor who ever lived...
...years abroad produced a smashing live album. Now reissued with the latest batch of Columbia Jazz Masterpieces releases (other offerings include Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Dave Brubeck), this two-disk set features a throaty version of 'Round Midnight that ranks as one of the great tenor sax performances of all time...