Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Came another divorce. La Cavalieri married Tenor Lucien Muratore. Artist Bob erupted in a flood of murals. He designed stained glass windows, painted screens, covered the walls of tycoons' swimming pools and conservatories with a profusion of birds and beasts in brilliant dynamic color, all the while eating, drinking, living with gargantuan gusto. No one house was big enough for this titan. He bought three brownstone houses on East 19th Street, Manhattan, knocked them together and covered every inch of wall space with his own paintings. There are palm trees and parrots in the pantry, a dado of chimpanzees climbs...
Pelléas et Mélisande by artists of the Paris Opera and Opera-Comique conducted by Piero Coppola (Victor, $10.50)?A surprisingly coherent recording of Debussy's elusive, misty music. Tenor Charles Panzera is an excellent Pelléas; Soprano Yvonne Brothier could learn much from Mary Garden, still greatest of Mélisandes...
SONG o' MY HEART (John McCormack) -scenic adaptation of eleven tenor solos...
...McCormack colors his celebrated upper register. In his customary manner, Mr. Borzage uses up a lot of film exhibiting the Irish village whence sprang the great ballad singer, the hero of the story. It is a badly integrated, inconclusive little story of frustrated love, frankly just a vehicle for Tenor McCormack. He sings eleven songs. His voice records beautifully, the slight metallic timbre of the talking machine eliminating the saccharine that makes McCormack cloying in his natural state. Song O' My Heart will undoubtedly be the greatest movie of the year to people who like "I Hear You Calling...
STALKER'S CRUCIFIXION by Tenor Richard Crooks, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, Organist Mark Andrews and Manhattan's Trinity Choir (Victor, $9)-For those who want their Easter music more orthodox than Wagner conceived it; recommended more for the excellence of its recording than for its musical substance...