Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imposing conductor's stand. Then a brawny man appeared bearing a score twice the size of most. An inner curtain rolled up, disclosing the rest of an enormous orchestra, behind it a bank of faces rising two-thirds of the way to the stage ceiling. Paunchy Tenor Paul Althouse entered with willowy, blonde Soprano Jeannette Vreeland and dark, smiling Contralto Rose Bampton. Finally came Philadelphia's Conductor Leopold Stokowski, wearing the full black cravat which, with his halo of light hair, makes him look like an erect, dandified David Belasco out of the age of inno- cence.* Philadelphia...
...Tenor Althouse sang first. He wore a conventional cutaway but was supposed to be Waldemar, King of the Danes in the 14th Century, hero of a cycle of poems by Danish Jens Peter Jacobsen. Waldemar loved Tove (Soprano Vreeland) with a deathless love, kept her in a castle at Gurre near Elsinore where royal Hamlet lived. Softly, exquisitely the strings described their passion for one another. Then Helvig, Waldemar's shrewish wife, lad Tove killed. A wood dove (Contralto Bampton) told the tragedy, how Tove's heart was still and the King's own heart strong still...
Thus, with parables perverted, did William Bushnell Stout, designer and builder of Ford tri-motor planes, last week in Aviation magazine castigate the airplane industry for its lack of ingenuity and inventiveness. In the same tenor in the same magazine two years ago Designer Stout, long a gadfly of the industry, observed that no plane had been produced as efficient per horsepower as the original Wright kite-like biplane. Illustrating with cartoons from his own drawing board (see cut), he queried: ''What would you think if the designer of a ship put the propeller in front to blow...
...Symphony for the benefit of unemployed musicians April 28, his idea of perfection will be Parsifal, the Prelude and the Good Friday music, followed by Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with its soaring Ode to Joy. Toscanini also cabled his choice of soloists: Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Contralto Margaret Matzenauer, Tenor Giovanni Martinelli, Basso Ezio Pinza...
...this winter, the bright young people of Mayfair danced nightly to "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "You're Blase," smart tunes made right in London. In Paris, people go to swank Monseigneur especially to hear Lucienne Boyer sing "Parlez-Moi d'Amour," a.soft, fragile French song. In Berlin Tenor Richard Tauber, the monocle man. is making "Du bist mein Traum" a worthy successor to "Dein ist mein Ganzes Herz...