Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little church in Cincinnati one night last week sat 80 pious Negroes and whites. On the platform stood a man singing in a slow, quavering tenor: "Wha-at a friend we ha-ave in Jesus. ..." Near him were half a dozen men and women whose features rhythmically moved in quickly-changing contortions. Their arms rose and fell, their fingers wiggling in concerted movement. Only sound in the church was the creaky tenor voice. When the hymn ended, the gesticulations of the half dozen people ended and the audience -So deaf-mutes-broke into spirited applause. The pastor of Cameron Methodist...
...worthy of the music Arturo Toscanini gave the Missa Solemnis last week its first performance by the New York Philharmonic, the first he has ever conducted. For the occasion he had 250 choristers from the New York Schola Cantorum and four expert soloists-Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Contralto Sigrid Onegin, Tenor Paul Althouse, Basso Ezio Pinza. Toscanini sang croakingly along with them but there were no complaints. The little Italian had never seemed so inspired as in the exalted Gloria, the prayerful Agnus...
Lily Pons drank from a nursing bottle, Rosa Ponselle rode a bicycle, big Lauritz Melchior, forgetting he was the world's greatest Wagnerian tenor, dressed up like Salome with painted toenails. Because the Metropolitan Opera Company is again desperately hard up it was giving its third Opera Surprise Party. New Yorkers paid $14,000 and laughed three hours to see the expensive singers without wigs or dignity...
...written a comical libretto called "A Half Century of Progress." Lily Pons was the Metropolitan in infancy. Ponselle's bicycle act was for the gay '90's. An important debut was remembered for 1906 and white-haired Geraldine Farrar bowed from the audience. Then Tenor Melchior appeared as the 1907 Salome, did the Dance of the Seven Veils to show why the Metropolitan's directors objected...
Awarded. Notre Dame University's Laetare Medal, outstanding U. S. award to live, lay Catholics: to Mrs. Nicholas Frederic (Genevieve Garvan) Brady, philanthropist, vice chairman of the National Women's Committee on Welfare and Relief Mobilization. Last year's award: To Tenor John McCormack...