Word: tenoritis
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...Schweitzer than can be found in a very short biographical essay. Most of the scenes were shot in Africa in oppressive heat; as a result, the film's general quality smacks of better-than-average home movies. The producers have dramatized little of Schweitzer's eventful life, keeping the tenor of the story subdued throughout, almost underplaying their material. They review Schweitzer's early life in and around Gunsbach, in Alsace: the parsonage where he was born and grew up, his first schoolroom, and the quiet countryside he came to love as a boy all pass before the camera...
...known works. One of the happiest recent finds: Puccini's one-acter, II Tabarro, on an excellent RCA Victor LP. This somberly lyric tale of jealousy, betrayal and murder on a Seine River barge is sung with power and intensity by Baritone Tito Gobbi, Soprano Margaret Mas and Tenor Giacinto Prandelli, strongly backed by the Rome Opera's chorus and orchestra under Veteran Conductor Vincenzo Bellezza. As the betrayed husband, Gobbi magnificently defines-in a voice alternately liquid with longing and rough-edged with rage-the climate of mind that drives him to murder...
...filled with patriotism. It was in the best tradition of such speeches . . ." Said London's Daily Telegraph: "Every sentence proclaimed the President's absorption with what he now clearly regards as his remaining mission in life-the creation of a true and lasting peace . . . The whole tenor of his inaugural address suggests that in the next four years we shall see this grand design persistently pursued. This dedication should be an inspiration to the world...
...Smith's poems are three brave attempts to make words into sights and songs and children's voice. Her hard, heavy lines and sheer, skimming ones are packed with consonants, alliterative even driving, to suggest the twist of a bronze by Henry Moore or the voice of a counter tenor, or a child's playing. Even more than the others, Reclining Figure is of substantial pauses that might better be heard than read...
...lavished its most expensive talents on Ernani. It got Spanish-born Artist Esteban Frances to design sets and costumes, surrounded Diva Milanov with Tenor Mario Del Monaco, Baritone Leonard Warren and Basso Cesare Siepi. To little avail. Of the four stars, nobody sang well in Act I, and Milanov appeared to be suffering from dizziness, staggering and finally getting herself planted before starting to sing. Vocally, she was plagued by an excruciatingly bad sense of pitch, although she had sung her role commendably in the dress rehearsal. Her loyal supporters wore lapel buttons reading "Viva Zinka...