Word: tenoritis
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...Shakespearean Webster hoped "that the shade of Verdi may be heard to murmur 'I have not been betrayed.' " A first-rate cast was listed to do its part: Veteran Soprano Zinka Milanov as Aiïa, Elena Nikolaidi as Amneris, new Italian Tenor Mario del Monaco as Radames and George London as Amonasro. Some first-nighters might even hear Verdi's shade murmur,"In better shape than...
Mozart: Don Giovanni (John Brownlee, baritone; Ina Souez, Audrey Mildmay and Luise Helletsgruber, sopranos; Koloman von Pataky, tenor; Salvatore Baccaloni, bass; the Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra and Chorus, Fritz Busch conducting; 6 sides LP). First released in the U.S. in 1938 in a 78-r.p.m. album, this is still the best performance of the Don on records; no one voice is brilliantly outstanding, but the temper of the ensemble more than makes up for that. The sound, good on shellac, is, if anything, improved...
Debussy: Pelléas and Mélisande (Irene Joachim, soprano; Germaine Cernay, contralto; Jacques Jansen, tenor; Paul Cabanel, bass; Etcheverry, baritone; the Yvonne Gouverné Chorus and orchestra, Roger Désormiére conducting; 6 sides LP). This recording grew out of a 40th anniversary performance of Debussy's nebulous nightshade opera at the Paris Opéra-Comique in 1942. It is now released for the first time in the U.S., and Pelléas partisans will find it well worth the wait. Recording: excellent...
...play with a minute left to go in the half changed the whole tenor of the came. Princeton had executed a screen pass play with spectacular success and Crimson quarterback Gil O'Neil had elected to try the same. But the Tiger's defensive guard Vie Bihl smelled the play coming because no Harvard lineman attempted to block...
Kansas-born Frank Luther has been a cowboy, a Bible singer, a preacher (Disciples of Christ), a folk singer, an operatic tenor and a songwriter (Barnacle Bill the Sailor). But he is most likely to be remembered as "the Bing Crosby of the Sandpile...