Word: tenore
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...other four sides the gauntleted hand of Director Leonard Feather, whose outlook on hot music is in general futuristic, can be detected. Tenor saxophonist Don Byas, and violinist-trumpeter Roy Nance, vie with each other to see who can try the most technical innovations in sixteen minutes. Nance even drags in a little pizzicato on one of his opening violin choruses. Through it all, however, snatches of Heywood may be heard which, though a bit incongruous in such company are responsible for whatever merit there is in this half...
...Minerva; Superfilm) is an Italian-made movie which juxtaposes the tyrannies and passions of Puccini's opera, La Tosca, and those of the Nazi domination of Rome. The story: a famous tenor hides a Polish Jew and a wounded British agent from the SS. His sweetheart [Anna Magnani], a famous soprano, misunderstanding his secretiveness, inadvertently betrays him through her jealousy. While the SS closes in, the Italian lovers sonorously sweat out La Tosca's similar story on the stage of Rome's Royal Opera House...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5:30 p.m., ABC). Wagner's Die Walküre, with Soprano Helen Traubel, Tenor Lauritz Melchior...
...adulation, out waltzed the star, singing gaily and enticingly flitting among her admirers, while the audience gratefully cheered, thankful for a glimpse, at last, of America's sweetheart. Producers found they could make money following the formula, which included pretty girls, costumes, music, and sets, a comedian, and a tenor, and they saw no need to try anything different...
...Irving Berlin is very much around with a huge and highly entertaining hit called "Annie Get Your Gun." Ethel Merman is the star, but you don't see her until well into the first act, after reams of talk about her, and otherwise the show is complete with tenor, girls, comedian, and all other standard equipment, the most important of which is the feeble plot. While the non-musical stage and even the movies have moved with the times, the musical-comedy, with few exceptions, has lingered lucratively in the past...