Word: tenoritis
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Death of a Poet. Author Holmes, a leading member of San Francisco's Beat Generation, makes the usual novelist's disclaimer: his characters are not real people. Still, reading his book, any sensitive cat might think of someone like Tenor Saxman Lester Young or Charley ("Yard-bird") Parker (who died in 1955 at the age of 35 because he behaved too much like Edgar Pool). The prototype for Geordie. The Horn's No. 1 chick, might be someone like Jazz Singer Billie Holiday. Actually, the resemblances are not important. This is a standard jazz story and, beyond...
...jacket clogged with enough medals for a NATO division, Wagnerian-size Tenor Lauritz Melchior chatted with Denmark's King Frederik IX at a celebration in Copenhagen of the Royal Guard's 300th anniversary. A guardsman himself in his nimble youth, Melchior crossed the Atlantic for a month's vacation in the old country with a 40-man delegation of Danish-American Guard grads, sang out loud and clear at the parade and at a festive veterans' dinner in the Tivoli Gardens...
...hills with his wife in his arms. This tale is set to an expansive, thickly melodic score which rarely bears any relation to the frenzies on stage but occasionally strikes some fine Straussian and Puccinian sparks. Recorded by a top-notch cast (including Dutch Soprano Gré Brouwenstijn, Tenor Hans Hopf, Baritone Paul SchÖffler, Bass Oskar Czerwenka), the album provides opera buffs with a rare look at a gifted but remote composer...
...Born. To Tenor Dennis Day (real name: Eugene Denis McNulty), 41, and Peggy Almquist McNulty, 34: their fifth son, seventh child; in Los Angeles. Name: Thomas Francis. Weight...
Keen on the sporting life since his days as an amateur pug in Prague, barrel-chested Metropolitan Tenor Kurt Bourn asked a former neighbor, Wrestler Antonino Rocca, to demonstrate his headlock technique. As any friend would, Rocca grabbed Baum's head and squeezed. Result: one blocked nasal passage, aggravating an old injury, one canceled singing tour, one operation for Tenor Baum. Said he ruefully in the hospital: "One moment I had perfect pitch, the next a nose that felt like a ripe persimmon...