Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rainey Bennett got his first artistic recognition as a high-school cartoonist in suburban Oak Park, Ill., helped pay his way through college by playing tenor banjo in a jazz band. He studied art in Chicago and Manhattan, now teaches it at Chicago's Art Institute. His favorite expletive: "Blue eggs...
First, massive Tenor Lauritz Melchior publicly denounced Leinsdorf's wayward tempos and lack of experience, found him "not yet ready to be senior conductor of the finest department of the greatest opera house in the world." Next, famed Diva Kirsten Flagstad, who was staying away from the opera house with grippe, hinted to friends that she might not go back unless Conductor Leinsdorf was replaced. It was no secret to the Manhattan music world that Diva Flagstad was backing a favorite young maestro of her own: U. S.-born Conductor Edwin McArthur, who had been conducting all her performances...
...City colored sock style that sounds a great deal like Andy Kirk only much more cleanly performed and with better phrasing. Best example of this style (which he is using on most of his pop tunes) is the theme song with which he opens his broadcasts. Listen especially to tenor saxman Sam Donahue, who is one of the best white men playing. Gene's playing has quieted down into good solid drumming for the band instead of for himself, so that things really swing most of the time...
Heldentenor. Lauritz Melchior is not a natural tenor. Jealous Italians refer to him sniffily as a misplaced baritone. Actually, he is an authentic example of a very rare type of singer: the true Wagnerian Heldentenor (heroic tenor). Most tenors have fairly light voices: their honey-voiced wailing is orchestrated to an accompaniment that will not drown them out. But Wagner had no use for such lightweights: the true Heldentenor must be able to out-boom a phalanx of trombones. Richard Wagner's heroes are strenuous fellows, who would willingly break a blood vessel to get to Walhalla, and Wagner...
...regular salary-1,000 kroner (about $200) a year. While he was still singing baritone roles at the Royal Opera, the eminent, U. S.-born vocal expert, Mme Charles Cahier, heard him, and wrote the director of the opera that Melchior was really no baritone but a tenor with the lid on. After he had practiced lifting the lid, he was allowed to sing his first tenor role: Tannhäuser...