Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last-minute news that "Doc" came back last night, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society opened their first joint spring concert, yesterday afternoon at Symphony Hall, in the traditional manner with a study from a recognized master: Mozart. The special chorus from Harvard and Mr. Lautner, tenor, deserve to be complimented for the spontaneity of their interpretation of his choruses for Freemasons...
Beethoven Music to Geethe's "Egmont." Soprano: O. Averino Reader: R. Hale Randall Thompson Symphony No. 2 in E Minor Prokofleff Incantation for Tenor, Chorus, and Orchestra Soloist: C. Stratton Lambert Rio Grande Borodin Polovetzkian Dances from "Prince Igor...
...contest is held to determine which of the singing citizens of Nuremberg is most worthy of Eva, daughter of Pogner, rich goldsmith who heads the local guild of mastersingers. In Manhattan's Knabe Hall one afternoon last week 200 New Yorkers attended a similar contest sponsored by Tenor Lauritz Melchior and Berthold Neuer of Wm. Knabe & Co. to discover a native "heroic tenor.''* At first it looked like another publicity stunt. Knabe Co., purveyor of pianos to the Metropolitan Opera, offered a prize of a Baby Grand. Melchior, the Met's foremost Wagnerian tenor, announced...
...Germans say ein Hcldcntcnor, mean a full, powerful, wide-ranged voice capable of such dramatic roles as Tristan, Parsifal, Siegfried. Like the late great Jean de Reszke, Melchior began his career as a baritone. Novelist Hugh Walpole staked him to the study that turned him out a tenor...
...routine gestures. But she was so young and unaffected, her voice so richly expressive, that the Hamburgers wanted to hear her in other big parts. She was singing Micaela in Carmen one night while the Vienna Opera director sat in the audience. He had come to find a new tenor but next day the tenor was forgotten and Lehmann was shakily signing a contract which she never stopped to read...