Word: tenoritis
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Short, dark Tenor Peerce's mother wanted him to study medicine, but he learned the fiddle, played and sang with Manhattan dance bands, was launched in the Music Hall by the late Samuel A. ("Roxy") Rothafel. When Peerce protested that he was too short and "funny looking" for the stage, Roxy replied: "You're the tallest man in the world! You're the handsomest man in the world! All you have to do is believe that...
...Webster is the man to watch in Ellington's band from now on. With Chu Berry dead in a motor accident some weeks ago and Coleman Hawkins playing with only infrequent imagination, Ben has little competition among his follow exponents of the tenor saxophone, and Duke is giving him ample leeway. On these two records he plays rich, flowing solos in a smooth, generally conjunct melodic line, supported chiefly by a well recorded rhythm section. There are no limits to Ellington's opportunities for solo improvisation in his band. I notice that the Duke has another record out today...
...operatic baritone and the contralto (whose first cinemappearance is, nevertheless, impressive) handle the skittish libretto like a pair of pouter pigeons, they are quite at home in their singing roles. The Straus melodies (My Hero, Sympathy, the title song, etc.), written originally for a lyric soprano and a tenor, have been rearranged and somewhat streamlined. Better are some of the picture's other tunes, Moussorgsky's Song Of The Flea (courtesy of Mr. Eddy), Saint-Saens' My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice (Miss Stevens), and Wagner's Evening Star (duet...
Grace Moore and Tenor Charles Kullman flung themselves about in The Love of Three Kings in San Francisco, collided with a whack. Her shoulder dislocated, Miss Moore shortly met a stage death at the hands of Basso Ezio Pinza, who choked her with vigor, suffered deep scratches on his hands and arms...
...horses, opera singers now cover the same circuit every year-the San Francisco opera in October, the Chicago opera in November, Manhattan's Metropolitan from then until March. San Francisco pays the most: $1,500 and up an evening to stars like Soprano Lily Pons, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, Tenor Lauritz Melchior. And San Francisco opera gets its money's worth. Productions, rehearsed aplenty, are well staged, freshly lighted, altogether less dusty than the Met's. The San Francisco Symphony plays with gusto...