Word: tenore
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...properly managed, will suddenly desert them. Birgit Nilsson lubricates her pipes with beer, Eileen Farrell quaffs warm Coca-Cola and follows it with burping exercises, Gwyneth Jones takes hot and cold showers and yawns a lot. The rage for eating raw garlic is so popular among German tenors (a cashew-sized sliver two hours before performing is supposed to strengthen the heart) that one indignant Italian soprano recently went onstage with an aerosol can of deodorant. Tenor Franco Corelli thoughtfully combines his raw-meat and garlic diet with nibbles on a bouquet of parsley between scenes...
Bloodshot Eyes. Not surprisingly, the sexual practices of singers are as odd as their gastronomic habits. Musicologist Henry Pleasants, whose new book The Great Singers, will be published this month, reports that Tenor Jean de Reszke (1850-1925) favored continence for male singers for two or three days before a performance. Should women indulge? a pupil asked. "Not," replied De Reszke, "while onstage...
...Volpe-McCormack fight is hardly less crucial for the future of either candidate. But the tenor of the campaign is completely different...
Born. To Dennis Day, 49, onetime radio and TV tenor (The Jack Benny Show), now doing an occasional nightclub bit; and Peggy McNulty, 41, his wife of 18 years: their tenth child, fourth daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. The addition to the Day nursery prompted the Bobby Kennedys, expecting their tenth in the spring, to whip off a congratulatory telegram: IN 1968 WE WILL CHALLENGE YOU TO THE WORLD'S FAMILY FOOTBALL-TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP...
Kennedy clearly enjoyed Fay's company, and saw to it that it was never in short supply. An uninhibited California Irishman, Fay was invariably good for a laugh, whether singing Hooray for Hollywood in a Morton Downey tenor or cheerfully playing straight man to the Kennedy wit. "Grand Old Lovable," was Kennedy's name for his pal, and Fay strove to deserve it. One day at church the President, who rarely carried any money, leaned over to his friend. "Slip me at least a ten," he whispered to Fay. "I want them to know this is a generous...