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...Angeles, Danish-born, barrel-shaped Singer Lauritz Melchior, who made his Metropolitan debut 21 years ago, finally became a U.S. citizen, with Danish wife Maria. "Now," burbled the 57-year-old heroic tenor to the press, "I will really sing...
Britten: Introduction & Rondo alla Burlesca and Mazurka Elegiaca (Clifford Curzon and Benjamin Britten, pianists; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides); Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings (Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Benjamin Britten conducting; 6 sides). The first recordings of Britain's wonder-boy composer to reach the U.S. His two-piano music is written in a pure, archaic style reminiscent of Britain's 17th Century great, Henry Purcell, though Britten adds harmonic twists of his own. The Serenade, done in a more contemporary vein, consists of poems by Blake, Keats, Tennyson and others, set to music that is artful...
...Miller fans remembered Tex Beneke best as the whiny-voiced singer of Chattanooga Choo Choo and My Melancholy Baby, or as a hard-riding tenor-sax soloist. Miller helped set up other friends, e.g., Charlie Spivak and Hal Mclntyre, with bands of their own, but Tex didn't want the responsibility. Now, when bands and nightclubs were dropping like overripe apples in a high wind, Tex keeps a payroll of more than 40 busy at a weekly overhead of $9,200. He is making no fortune at it, but a new radio contract with Miller's old sponsor...
Sports are Bob Stanton's specialty, and sports thus far are television's biggest attraction. Once, back in 1932, he had a brief fling at singing in a band (his onetime lyric tenor has now become a well-modulated announcer's baritone), but singing was "too much of a grind." After he began sports announcing, he spent eight years playing second fiddle to Sportcaster Bill Stern, doing the crowd description fill-ins at big games and announcing the second-string events. In 1940 he had a chance to telecast the New York World's Fair Soap...
Married. Nino Martini, 42, short (5 ft. 7), tall-voiced (high F) Metropolitan Opera tenor; and Nancy Maloney Tafel, 26; he for the first time, she for the second; in Stamford, Conn...