Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd. In Amsterdam, U.S. Coloratura Soprano Marilyn Tyler accepted a rush call to sing Violetta in La Traviata, although she sang in unpopular German while the rest of the cast sang in Italian. After the first act, a year's contract was offered to her. In Munich, U.S. Tenor Howard Vandenburg arrived unannounced, auditioned and was hired on the spot. All over Europe, and especially in Germany, young American singers are singing for European audiences, hoping to follow in the paths of such Europe-polished Americans as Coloratura Mattiwilda Dobbs, Mezzo-Soprano Risë Stevens, Contralto Jean Madeira...
Soprano Elizabeth Kalkhurst and tenor Malcolm Ticknor gave program in Lowell Common Room Sunday evening of art songs and operatic excerpts ranging from Elizabethan period to the present. Ticknor has luscious G-G octave, which he handles expertly, but lower notes as yet weak and unfocused. Soprano not up to her usual standard. Her best singing was fittingly in the premiere of the "Glamis thou art" aria from a new opera Macbeth by Edward Goldman, who was present; an aptly melodramatic setting, with particularly effective use of low notes. Singers joined at end for pair of the too rarely heard...
...Concert, Lowell House Jr. Common Room (Elizabeth Kalkhurst, Soprano; Malcolm Ticknor, Tenor). Free...
...come here to ask for your vote." While four cops wrestled to hold back the crowd. Stevenson struggled into La Pantera for dinner with Owner Rena Nicolai and her employees. They pushed two bottles of Bardolino wine into his arms, then grabbed them back and started pouring. While a tenor sang La Donna è mobile, Stevenson ate spaghetti and joined in a dozen toasts (to Adlai, to Rena, to good times...
...pieces by Mozart--"Laut Verkunde" and "Die Maurerfreude"--were not performed in an outstanding manner; clarity and precision were lacking. The motet, "Non vos relinquam," by Byrd, should probably have to tempi, although the remarkable voice registrations, involving a very high tenor, were brought out well when the wind obliged. Even the Maelstrom, however, could not have drowned out the rhythmic and almost percussive phrases of the Preger "Sanctus," a work of dubious musical worth, and even less liturgical relevance. Completing the serious part of the program were Dvorak's charming "Maiden in the Wood," and Milhaud's "Psalm...