Word: tenore
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...point in La Bohème, Rodolfo, the tenor lover, sings out: "Who am I?-I am a poet ... In poverty I yet indulge myself like a Grand Seigneur in rhymes . . ." When Richard Tucker sings those lines he can partly mean them: in his eight years at the Metropolitan Opera, he has been privately amusing himself by writing doggerel. Last week Tucker gave out some samples...
...Metropolitan Opera this week announced the winners of its 13th annual Auditions of the Air (ABC). One is Arthur Vincent Budny, 29, a baritone from Detroit. The other, a 22-year-old tenor from New Orleans, bills himself simply as Charles Anthony, and with understandable reticence. His full name: Charles Anthony Caruso (no kin). The Met took an option on their voices for one year...
...pitcher), and the pollster's boy, George H. Gallup Jr., 21 (catcher). In Manhattan, James W. Symington, 24, son of the retired RFC head and a law student at Columbia University, picked up a contract to sing in the Carnaval Room of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel. Said Tenor Symington: "I'm paying my spring tuition with what I get here." Nicholas Eden, 20, son of Britain's Foreign Secretary, left Oxford and arrived in Ottawa to begin his new job as aide to Governor General Vincent Massey. He was, he said, "a summer sports...
...versatile Mr. Chabay returned to sing Bartok arrangements of five Hungarian folk songs. These range from the pathetic irony of In Jail to the half-cheerfulness of Dance Song, and the tenor sung them all with such finesse and sympathy that he was called back for an encore...
Also notable is Cetra-Soria's Aïda (6 sides LP). An Italian cast, including Tenor Mario Filippeschi, Soprano Caterina Mancini, Mezzo Giulietta Simionato and Baritone Rolando Panerai, gives a fine performance, as does the Orchestra and Chorus of Radio Italiana under Vittorio Gui. The recording is excellent. Less successful: Remington's Rigoletto (6 sides LP), performed by undistinguished soloists and a lackluster orchestra and chorus of Florence's Maggio Musicale. The recording is fair...