Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about to be given in English which they could not understand. Soprano Pearl Besuner, made up as a haggish black woman, was almost unintelligible as she informed Smithers, Jones's cockney factotum, that the natives had rebelled, gathered on a distant hill to hatch Jones's death. Tenor Marek Windheim's cockney accent only added to the confusion. But then Baritone Lawrence Tibbett swaggered on the stage...
From the world of music came Titta Ruffo, formerly of the Metropolitan Opera; Coe Glade of the Chicago Opera; Viennese Tenor Otto Fassell; Vera Schwarz of the Berlin State Opera. Harald Kreutzberg, Martha Graham, Patricia Bowman danced. Apelike Funnyman Dr. Rockwell and Weber & Fields excited laughter. There was deep-voiced DeWolf Hopper, always willing to do "Casey at the Bat." The Wallendas, whom John Ringling found in Cuba, performed on the high wire. The Six Bronetts clowned. From radio came the successful Sisters of the Skillet. From the screen came Taylor Holmes. There were acrobats and jugglers...
...musical organism, giving mellowness, richness, and flexibility to the tone; that it is present in primitive song as well as in the most highly cultured, wherever the song comes from an inherently musical mind. The untutored singer of Negro blues may have as good a vibrato as the Metro tenor...
...could. But people who heard the performance over the radio were fortunate not to see the plush picture-book queen that Contralto Karin Branzell made out of Klytemnestra, supposedly half-crazed by the sense of her guilt. Soprano Goeta Ljungberg looked foolish posturing in an elaborate white satin dress. Tenor Rudolf Laubenthal seemed more like a saintly Lohengrin than a man who had committed murder to get a throne. Baritone Friedrich Schorr was a dignified but middle-aged Orestes...
...Town Hall recital. Singer Smith attacked his first notes so nervously and late that he had to signal to the orchestra to start over again. But with his second attempt he had mastered his vocal powers like a seasoned artist. Manfully he proceeded to display a firm, dark-hued tenor voice. It had no great volume, no ringing top notes. It had evidently been strained, misused. His sunken chest and relaxed abdomen were witnesses of faulty breathing which must have gone on for years. But the tones of his middle register, though slightly nasal, had clarity, directness. His legato...