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Revolutionary Songs (Tues. 3:30 p.m., CBS). The Liberty Song, Bunker Hill, The Toast, Lamentation over Boston, Ode to Fourth of July resurrected from 18th-Century manuscripts by Antiquarian Elie Siegmeister, sung for the first time on radio by Soprano Hollace Shaw, Tenor Charles Haywood...
...Musik-beflissener. The third edition of this witching work, which last week reached U. S. shores, showed Nazi inquisitors to be more thorough than accurate. Among the prominent "Jewish" musicians listed: Chicago's retiring Yankee Composer John Alden Carpenter; rotund Danceband-leader Paul Whiteman; lusty, kewpie-faced Wagnerian Tenor Lauritz Melchior. Fumed Tenor Melchior, when informed of his nomination: "I am a Dane, without a drop of Jewish blood in me, and I am determined to seek redress...
During a performance of La Boheme in London's Covent Garden, Italian Tenor Beniamino Gigli unintentionally lighted a stage stove in the garret scene. Intrepid Gigli, singing like a lark the whole time, edged into the wings, seized a bucket of water, doused the fire...
Last Tuesday evening the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in their annual concert at Symphony Hall. The work selected was Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. Soloists were Jeanette Vreeland, soprano; Kathryn Meisle, alto; John Pricbe, tenor; and Mack Harrell, bass. Dr. Koussevitzky conducted...
...likely to be young singers of more than average ability. Last week Metropolitan General Manager Edward Johnson, having listened with his fellow judges to 707 auditions, announced the winners for 1937-38. Presented with a contract, $1,000 and a silver plaque apiece were handsome, smooth-faced Brooklyn Tenor John Carter (Nelson Eddy's successor on the Chase & Sanborn Hour) and slick-haired, muscular Bronx Baritone Leonard Warren. Twenty-five-year-old Tenor Carter studied to be a civil engineer, gave up engineering to study voice. Baritone Warren was brought up in his Russian-born father...