Word: tenoritis
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...past three years, Manhattan concert-and operagoers have heard plenty of English Composer Benjamin Britten's music (Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia). This week, a Town Hall audience turned out to hear some Britten music played by the composer himself. As accompanist for English Tenor Peter Pears, who created the leading roles in all of Britten's major operas, "Benjy" proved himself as astute on the platform at the piano as he is in his parlor with a pen. When the nicely varied and nicely performed program of original Brittens, Britten-arranged Purcell and English folk songs...
...little worried too about the conducting he would have to do in California next month. At the University of Southern California he will lead a performance of his cantata St. Nicolas for tenor, mixed voices, string orchestra, piano and percussion, and preside over a production of his opera Albert Herring. Although he has conducted some performances of his English Opera Group in the last two years, he still feels uneasy with a baton. "I never seem to know whether to move my arms to the right or left, or up or down . . ." But he was happy about going west...
After a dozen more campus and concerthall audiences in the U.S. and Canada, Composer Britten and Tenor Pears will fly back to England. There Britten will plunge into an enthusiasm of his own: his seventh opera, his first with Novelist E. M. (A Passage to India) Forster as librettist...
...most interesting thing about the whole student movement is that so large a group as this should revolt against the general tenor of student apathy and put on such a determined effort to elect any single candidate. And the headquarters on Washington Street is an active place showing the signs of a political group that means to win; most of the previous student organizations in city polities have been relatively listless...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Irma Gonzalez, soprano; Elena Nikolaidi, contralto; Raoul Jobin, tenor; Mack Harrell, baritone; Westminster Choir and New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 16 sides). The first three movements are performed with more passion than pace; both the singing and the recording in the choral movement come off with some screeching and muffled sounds...