Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Underground in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, a shapely, young-looking man sat on a baggage truck one morning last week, swinging his legs and valiantly pretending that he was not at all dazed. Few hours before in Detroit, Tenor Edward Johnson had been the dreamy hero of Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson. Then suddenly, on the baggage truck, he was supposed to tell reporters how it felt to be General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, the successor to Herbert Witherspoon who dropped dead two weeks after he had taken over the job from Giulio Gatti-Casazza (TIME...
...dealings Tenor Johnson was expected to be a fair and sympathetic arbitrator, a practical judge of the artists' rights and of what the public wants for its money. As a singer Tenor Johnson was always popular with his colleagues. Yet unlike many of them he had kept closely in touch with the everyday people who make up audiences. Johnson is a golfer, a Mason, a Rotarian. He has remained as unpretentious as his townsfolk in Guelph, Ontario, who now prize his portrait in Guelph Town Hall but who once wondered at a youth so incalculable that he would turn...
...study in Italy. There, as in the U. S., his plain Anglo-Saxon name was a handicap. He changed it to Eduardo di Giovanni, made his mark at La Scala before he was invited home. For more than a decade he has been the No. 1 North American-born tenor. Others may sing louder. But Johnson never errs as an artist, never fails to be an attractive, credible hero. As Roméo and Pelléas he has surpassed all his contemporaries...
...hours after Herbert Witherspoon's burial, the Metropolitan directors voted to abide by the plans he had made, hoped to elect his successor this week. The most likely candidates appeared to be Edward Ziegler or Tenor Edward Johnson...
...full days on musical programs, musical talk. Their endurance seemed unlimited. Speeches ranged from the need of a fine arts minister in the President's Cabinet to a discussion of ancient Hebrew music. Singing went on constantly, thanks to amateur choristers. For special treats there were concerts by Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, Baritone Nelson Eddy, Violinist Albert Spalding, the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by José Iturbi...