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...Tenor Franco Corelli is a former Italian rowing champion, while Tenor Placido Domingo tried out as a bullfighter in Mexico. Now Middle Linebacker Paul Glanton, 20, of the University of Minnesota Gophers seems likely to become yet another singing sportsman. Each afternoon these days Bass-Baritone Glanton works out in rehearsals at the university's opera workshop. Cast as Don Alfonso in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Paul finds football and opera similar. "If you eliminate the contact," he said, "the performance and the rehearsals in opera are just as strenuous as football." There is another difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 11, 1974 | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...soloists, unfortunately, were considerably less impressive than the choir. Both women soloists sang with wobbly gusto, though none too steady in pitch. Tenor Gartside sounded forced and dry while bass Hester, the best of the four, masterfully sang his solo at the beginning of the Agnus...

Author: By S.r. Morris, | Title: Late Great Beethoven | 3/6/1974 | See Source »

Adams amassed a huge choir for this concert, including the Collegium Musicum, The Harvard Glee Club, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus. The soloists, all from the Boston area, were Mary Strebing, soprano, Jan Curtis, alto, Robert Gartside, tenor, and Francis Hester, bass. The very fine orchestra included both Harvard students and Boston professionals contracted by concertmaster Robert Brink. Adams led all these forces in an intense and exciting performance...

Author: By S.r. Morris, | Title: Late Great Beethoven | 3/6/1974 | See Source »

...successful institution's activities. The resources of Memorial Church are presently being used to capacity. There are many indicators of the vitality of the current congregation: a large and increasing attendance at services (both in and out of term), the superb quality of the music, and especially the tenor of religious teaching led by Acting Minister Peter J. Gomes...

Author: By Kenneth Hoffman, | Title: Religious Pluralism | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...kept in touch with New York largely via phone and Telex exchanges. In his absence, things began to come apart, beginning in January with a spectacularly unlucky production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Swedish Soprano Catarina Ligendza, scheduled for the first performances, canceled, citing illness. In turn, Tenor Jon Vickers, who is the best Tristan in the world right now, began to have second thoughts about making his Met debut in the role. Conductor Erich Leinsdorf apparently caught the pouts from him and nearly quit as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wanted: Full-Time Help | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

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