Word: tenoritis
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Talk of a big new opera company buzzed louder and clearer in Manhattan last week than any of the many opera rumors of the past year. Soprano Maria Jeritza and Tenor Beniamino Gigli, both out of the Metropolitan this year, were two names connected with it. Richard Strauss, the story went, would be one of its conductors, Fritz Reiner another. Max Reinhardt, Ernst Lubitsch and Robert Edmond Jones would stage its productions in up-to-date fashion. Youthful members of Society would be called upon for support instead of the staid and settled folk who sit in the boxes...
...Tenor Tito Schipa, who sang leading roles with the Chicago Civic Opera Company until it disbanded last spring (TIME, July 4), appeared in L'Elisir d'Amore as the timid rustic who gets tipsy on a love potion taken to help him win the village belle. Schipa was not so slapstick in the role as Tenor Gigli, whom he is replacing. His voice is lighter. But he sings Italian arias with the old-fashioned sentiment which the galleries adore...
Singing medieval church music was too much for the irrepressible spirit of these jolly clerics. The austerity and the monotony of plainsong they found a bore. They began by introducing words of their own into the mass the tenor of the new text was more entertaining, if not always reverent. They improvised new parts, every man carrying boldly forward regardless of the incredible cacophony which they produced. Each man bawled out his own part in his own time more or less regardless of his neighbors, trusting to Heaven that he might end with the rest. Words of the mass were...
...Those interested in taking advantage of the extra session have written from all over the United States. The tenor of the letters shows that the project has come at the right time. several foreigners have also expressed much interest in the plan," the statement continued...
...tenor of the propaganda in the leaflets was anti-communist in character, and urged that the "standard of the Khan be raised again in defense of American institutions as in former years...