Word: tenoritis
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Enrico Caruso Jr., 39, sometime playboy, onetime cinema bit-player, vocalist, who resembles his late, great tenor father in name only, announced that he would begin singing for his supper soon in Buffalo and Detroit nightclubs...
...Marlowe Morris (piano), Sidney Catlett and Joe Jones (drums), Lester Young and Illinois Jacquet (tenor sax), Red Callender and John Simmons (bass), Harry Edison (trumpet), Barney Kessel (guitar...
...manual was worked out by U.S.O. Music Division Chief Raymond Kendall, with Houghton Mifflin's William Spaulding. It is to be used in connection with nine recordings of popular barbershop numbers. At first the record plays a selection emphasizing the lead, tenor and bass successively, to give the G.I. student the idea. Then it supplies the missing parts, so that the G.I. can learn in turn to sing lead, tenor and bass. By the time he is through the cycle, the G.I. has become an all-round barbershop expert, able to sound off, at the clearing of a throat...
...broke the spell. The first installment was broadcast last Sunday on the regular Toscanini-conducted NBC Symphony program, with a second installment to follow this week. For his Fidelia the maestro drew heavily on the Metropolitan's roster, allotted principal roles to Sopranos Rose Bampton and Eleanor Steber, Tenor Jan Peerce, Baritone Herbert Janssen, Bass Nicola Moscona. At the end of the broadcast, a distinguished audience-including half of Manhattan's top-rank musical celebrities, who had frantically begged their invitations-caught its breath, hoped fervently that the maestro might somehow make a more lasting peace with opera...
...Musicians. Dorothy's two sisters gave up their careers for marriage, and her trumpeter brother ended up as a professor of music in Lenoir, N.C. Her own big break came in 1939 when Soprano Grace Moore heard her, and sent her to Italy to study with famed Tenor Beniamino Gigli's teacher. Despite the war, Dorothy wanted to stay in Naples, but her worried family managed to get the U.S. consul to have her forcibly deported...