Word: tenoritis
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...memorize Caruso's interpretations, each long held note, each sob and sigh. Conductor Shilkret donned earphones, then summoned his orchestra and. listening to the old records, conducted new accompaniments which would time with them exactly. Through two loudspeakers in a separate control room Engineer Sooy listened to the tenor's rich tones. Shilkret's new setting. He combined them to produce a record which gives fresh lustre to the voice, completely obliterates the old tinny accompaniment...
...Buenos Aires opened last June its temporada grande (big season), which corresponds both in climate and in social brilliance with the winter seasons of U. S. operas. On its two greatest drawing cards the Colon could not retrench; immediately after the successful 1931 season it had signed contracts with Tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi and Coloratura Soprano Lily Pons. But there was no cause for regret. When Lauri-Volpi departed last month he flung exuberantly to the Argentine internal loan fund 50,000 pesos ($12,500), half of his season fee. Pretty Lily Pons got more: $27,000 for the season...
...played a melody which she said was inspired by her garden. They urged her to write it down. Arranged by Radio Orchestra Conductor William Merrigan Daly, with lyrics by one Lester O'Keefe. "In My Garden" was sung publicly last week for the first time, by Tenor Richard Crooks in an NBC concert...
...over the mountain. Brünnehilde's eight new sisters were given made-up. Wagnerian-sounding names like "Ritthelle." "Kampfsiege," "Trautschilde." There were real gas flames, 10 to 40 ft. high, for the Magic Fire scene. In Die Walküre sang Soprano Elsa Alsen, Basso Fred Patton. Tenor Georg Fassnacht Jr. from the Freiburg Passion Play. In Aïda were Tenor Paul Althouse, Soprano Gina Pinnera...
...plantation scene, with massed slaves singing the chant of their new freedom while a band plays "John Brown's Body"; the short, jazzy cabaret scene; the death of the Voodoo Man, with Baritone Bledsoe groaning "Now, forever my tom-tom will be silent," and the Boy (Tenor Luther King) responding "No! No! Black Man! The tom-tom shall be heard...