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...progress toward full participation in U.S. life. While they didn't make such big headlines, they have a considerable significance and can be read with a measure of pride by anyone who approaches the civil rights question with good will. Don't miss The Ace (in SPORT), Tenor in Whiteface (Music), and More Than Color (PRESS...
...Italy, a man would much rather be called a cuckold than be accused of having a faccia di tenore-the face of a tenor. In France, the proverb goes: "Stupid as a tenor, amorous as a baritone, drunk as a bass." Some doctors who specialize in treating singers' throats and nasal passages at least half-believe the theory. Says a well-known Manhattan doctor who probably caters to more of the city's vocal elite than anyone else: "I have always jokingly said that tenors are so dense because they are living with chronic brain concussion. They have...
Among themselves, singers are naturally divided. Soprano Birgit Nilsson has referred to a tenor partner as "having a resonance chamber where his brain used to be." Metropolitan Opera Soprano Teresa Stratas takes a feminine view: "Stupidity, no. Egomania, yes. Tenors seem stupid because they are so fully absorbed in themselves. Sopranos -they all have to be pretty smart cookies to have gotten where they are." Tenor Richard Tucker, in a cheerily frivolous reaction that goes far to refute the thesis, comments: "Since tenors usually carry their fat elsewhere, you can be sure they are not fatheads. And besides, the mere...
...blonde wife Sarolta, 26, were talking over old times with Cellist Pablo Casals, 89, and his dark-haired wife Marta, 24. Under an oak tree Violinists Shmuel Ashkenasi (from Israel) and Charles Avsharian (from the U.S.) were playing a bridge game with Tenor Jon Humphrey (Robert Shaw Chorale soloist) and Horn Player Steve Seiffert (first horn, Buffalo Philharmonic...
...name, he exudes the kind of shy, squinty-eyed sincerity that bowls women over. His songbook is a treatise on good taste, superior arrangements and gimmick-free delivery, after the style of Frank Sinatra, who calls Jones "the best potential singer in the business." Jack, the son of Movie Tenor Allan Jones (Donkey Serenade) and Actress Irene Hervey, grew up "in the trade," spent eight years on the road before Pop decided that he was sincere and took him under his wing...