Word: tenoritis
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Interviewed in Manhattan, debonair Crooner Billy Eckstine announced plans to record an Eckstine-composed duet, Two for Tee, with an old fairway acquaintance, Golfer Jimmy Demaret, three-time winner of the Masters Tournament, and described by Billy as "a surprisingly sweet Killarney tenor type." But Golfer Demaret has no place in Eckstine's vision of the composite "dream crooner." His choices and their attributes: "The ideal lad would have Perry Como's voice, Frank Sinatra's ease, Tony Martin's showmanship, Nat 'King' Cole's soul-and Bing Crosby's money...
Gianni Poggi: Operatic Recital (London). A young (32) lyric tenor from La Scala shows a golden voice and a fine feeling for Italian-opera tradition in these seven selections from Il Trovatore, Manon Lescaut, Andrea Chenier, etc. Tenor Poggi is due for U.S. appearances next year...
...Your proofreaders, I daresay, must have been taken in by the soporific tenor of the article . . . I believe the correct word to be "optimum," not optimism; or am I, too, with Morpheus...
Musically, the production proved to be more than adequate, despite the fact that Tenor Ramon Vinay and pretty Soprano Gre Brouenstein showed signs of strain. The chorus, one of the world's finest, performed brilliantly. But the chief attraction, as usual, was the staging. Wieland sees Tannhäuser as a harried misfit in a world of rigid conventions. Dressed in a black cloak (while the other minstrels wear brown), he moves among stiff, almost mechanized people of the court. Preparing for the crucial song contest in the second act-usually staged with casual confusion-uniformly dressed...
...Simple Question. Two or three nights a week, when the Giants are at home, the star centerfielder of the big leagues scoots down the block from the Goosby apartment to play a fast game of stickball with a band of tenor twelve-year-old boys. Capering and joking with the kids, Mays coaches their play, urges them in his high, giggle-edged voice: "Throw harder! Harder...