Word: tenoritis
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Vienna Philharmonic, Bruno Walter conducting, with Kerstin Thorborg, contralto, and Charles Kullman, tenor; Columbia; 14 sides). A reissue of Columbia's 1936 recording, when the Vienna Philharmonic was still at its pre-Nazi best. Mahler's symphonic setting of the verses of Li Tai Po and other Chinese immortals remains one of the few great musical compositions of the 20th Century, one of the most tragic works in all musical literature...
...Wedgwood Room is Victor Borge (pronounced Borguh) as the "unmelancholy Dane," who arrived in the U.S. two years ago not knowing a word of English. Borge's droll, suave, teasing act, full of casually crazy asides ("T.ie tenor comes in in single file") culminates expertly at the piano...
...singing teacher with the claim of having taught Italy's Queen Margherita how to play the mandolin. In 1915 he took his first plunge: a production of Pagliacci at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in which he sang the part of Canio himself. As a tenor, he was a spectacular bust. But he took in $7,000 at the box office...
...went there, great Russian violinists were scarcer than caviar on a peasant's table. By the time he left Europe, in 1919, to spend his declining years at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, he had made the term "Russian violinist" as much a commonplace as "Italian tenor." Critics sometimes complained that Auer's Russians sacrificed elegance and emotion for pyrotechnics and schmalz. But it had to be admitted that nobody could touch Auer for teaching luscious tone quality, machinelike fleetness and accuracy of fingerwork...
...years since he left Ohio's Wilberforce University to become an entertainer in the speakeasies of Kansas City, massive, coal-black Jimmy Rushing has been singing blues and swinging his fat. His hot-metal tenor, edgy enough to cut a brass team, and his unexpectedly light footwork have brought him fame among the old-style gin-garden chanteurs...