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...session will take up the first half of the program, a swing contest, to determine Harvard's leading swingster, will occupy the second half. The Network held a similar program last May in which Count Basie and his blues singer, Jimmy Rushing, were featured. At this time two tenor sax men, Joe Dunn and Gene Burgstaller, were crowned University swing champs, but both of them have left school...
...newcomer, Joe Pamelia '46, is rated highly on the clarinet and tenor sax and another new addition to the amateur players is Steve Taylor, a summer School student from Cornell who plays the trombone...
...perils of opera singing struck again: in an outdoor production of Carmen at Chicago's Soldier Field, Tenor Jan Kiepura spurned Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout so thoroughly that he knocked her cold against the stage floor. Carried off and revived, she finished the show with a banged-up forehead...
...Wagner, Columbia has signed Melchior up, and just released his first recorded attempt at "Otello." The album comprises the monologue and death scene, along with Rienzi's prayer, and the song from the second act of "Tristan" beginning "O Koenig." These records show that he is the only tenor in circulation who could do this tremendous role anything like full justice. His Italian isn't all it might be, and his style is a little heavy in spots, but the necessary power and brilliance are there. The best of this new album of his is, of course, the "Tristan" excerpt...
...mugged, sang, cavorted in the smash hit This Is The Army (TIME, July 13). Each morning he drilled with the rest of the cast on a vacant lot in Manhattan. Two mornings a week (Sundays 8:45 a.m., Thursdays 9:30 a.m. E.W.T.) his strumming guitar and his warm tenor voice plugged the Army show over CBS. He took the daily Jive stint happily in stride...