Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was in the conservatory in the Lombard city a man of middle life and of some wealth, a tenor. He had been studying for years with that grand heroism that you find in aspirants who have never contrived to sing a decent note. No manager, even of the smallest company, would give him. a debut. In the Spring a number of students held a confabulation at the end of which they went to the tenor, told him that the managers were conspiring against him, and that they, his friends, were going to get up a performance...
They engaged a theatre, gathered a good company for Aïda, announced a performance with the tenor, who was known and laughed at all over town, as Radames. The Milanese, notably facetious, packed the house on the august night...
...that dogs the footsteps of every academic publication. If these are crimes it will suffer for them. But if, on the other hand, they are worth-while efforts, it stands to win. Safer and saner is that paper that "along the cool sequestered vale of life" pursues "the noiseless tenor of its way;" it risks nothing; it will lose nothing; it will win nothing--not even readers. But even at that there is something glorious about...
Thursday evening, Mme. Delcourt, harpist in the Boston Symphony orchestra, will share with John Barnes Wells, tenor, a concert in Jordan Hall...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra, which--will give its second Sanders Theatre concert of the season this evening at 8 o'clock will have for its soloist, Mr. Roland Hayes, the negro tenor who recently returned from the second of two successful concert tours abroad...