Word: tenoritis
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George Gershwin, famous composer-pianist and known the werld over for his "Rhapsody in Blue," will give a concert at Symphony Hall on Sunday afternoon, January 14. He will have with him James Melton, well-known radio tenor, and also Leo Reisman's orchestra of 38 pieces, directed by Charles Previn...
...newcomers odds were on Tenor Nino Martini to make the biggest success. He was the Duke singing with Lily Pons in Rigoletto. The other debutants were capable but they had smaller parts: Lillian Clark, a comely San Francisco soprano, was an offstage priestess in Aïda. Irra Petina, a Russian emigre who trained at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute, was one of eight noisy amazons in Die Walküre. Basso Virgilio Lazzari, lately of the Chicago Civic Opera, did his bit well...
...Tenor Martini went to the Metropolitan handsomely advertised by Columbia Broadcasting System which for the past year has sponsored his radio performances. But for all his beautiful legs and a smooth, ingratiating voice critics found him short of Metropolitan standards. He was often flat. His loudly-touted top notes were strained. It was the oldtimer who had the week's warmest reception. Soprano Claudia Muzio, who left the Met twelve years ago to sing in Chicago, returned, gave a stirring performance in La Traviata...
Another lynching was done in Maryland last week, this time not on the ragged Eastern Shore but in the proud old city of Baltimore. The Baltimore Civic Opera Company was responsible when it put on a one-act affair called Swing Low. In it Tenor A. Roy Williams, blacked up as a Negro, was making harmless love to Soprano Elsie Craft (also in blackface) when an operatic mob appeared to drag him offstage to a hanging...
...Author, who takes a deep view of artists, thinks van Gogh was less gifted with imagination and talent than the average man. "But if the word artist . . . is a synonym for a man of such moral tenor that he only sets a further goal to his aspiration as his consciousness gains in the deepening perception of Nature and her laws, then Vincent was an artist and the greatest of our time...