Word: tenore
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Other departments--English, Government, and Chemistry for instance--may postpone the question until after Christmas. "Knowing the tenor of my department, I'm sure they'll put off crossing that bridge until they have to face it," Andrew M. Gleason, chairman of the Mathematics Department said Monday...
...telephone for every ten people, and someone was always using the party line. Besides, she had to face the laundry stacked beside the hand-powered washing machine. That evening, Mr. U.S. got home to find his wife so exhausted that she fell asleep after supper while listening to the tenor of John McCormack scratching out of the Victrola that stood in the light of the flickering gas lamps in the living room...
...down to block off balconies, reducing the house from 4,000 to 3,000 seats) and a stage that could slide out to cover two-thirds of the orchestra. The acoustics were superb. "I would rather sing in the Auditorium than in any other hall in the world," said Tenor John McCormack, and Soprano Nellie Melba wished that she could "fold it up and take it with me everywhere...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "Benjamin Britten and His Aldeburgh Festival" recounts the contributions of one of the world's foremost composers to the music festival in Aldeburgh, England. With tapes of performances this past summer by Russian Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, the Vienna Boys Choir, Tenor Peter Pears and Guitarist Julian Bream...
...relative neglect. A retelling of the Romeo and Juliet story that owes little to Shakespeare, Capuleti, with Bellini's intimate scale, pervading sweetness and utter predictability, is a distinct contrast to Verdi's powerful, primitive themes and vaulting imagination. But the company -notably the two leads, Tenor Giacomo Aragall and Soprano Renata Scotto-traded the flawed gusto of its Trovatore and Nabucco performances for restraint and quiet artistry, making Capuleti the only production of the week to come off with cohesiveness and unity of effect...