Word: tenore
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...strangest of song recitals was given here the other day. The soloist was a recently released convict who was billed with no further name than his prison number -562. He sang half a dozen songs in a magnificent tenor. One of these, dedicated to his wife, was a' member of a group of 150 compositions that he wrote in prison...
...Edward Ballantine (First performance) Two Voices The Climbing Vine Pavane Minuet Capriccio Played by the composer Socrate Erik Satie (First performance in America) Three Dialogues out of Plato 1. Portrait de Socrate (Le Banquet) 2. Bords de I'lllisus (Phedre) 3. Mort de Socrate (Phedon) J. F. Lautner '21, Tenor Virgil Thomson '23, Planist
...Business Committee. The Collegiate Special Advertising Agency made a plea for a fixed standard of solicitation, whereas the representative of Roy Barn-hill Incorporated sought exclusive representation. The Convention finally decided that competition between the two companies is stimulating to college advertising, and therefore passed a resolution, the tenor of which forbids the solicitation of accounts by one agency which are already carried through the other in order to encourage the agencies to obtain new accounts which have not yet come within their scope...
Although the Government made no reference to the de Valera peace proposals and has declined to recognize them, the tenor of public opinion is that peace is in sight. Sceptics, however, are asking themselves: " How long will peace be maintained...
...audience refused to leave when the lights were extinguished after a recital by John McCormack, forcing him to sing two encores in semi-darkness." So runs a wireless despatch reporting the Irish tenor's appearance in Berlin. This sort of thing certainly gives the lie to the opinion still in vogue among cynical subway riders that McCormack's reputation results from crowding audiences of servant girls and from other manifestations of Gaelic loyalty. The tenor, far from being a showy player to gushy sentiment, is one of the most refined and scholarly of artists...