Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given moment, there were ups and downs. Ed Conte of Adams sat in at the piano until the other two pianists arrived and did some excellent work with a "blocked chord" style. In All the Things You Are Watson on the alto and Ray Pitts on the tenor sax-the only two with much experience together-engaged in a beautifully fluid duet in the current "counterpoint" style. Lewis on the conga drum and Arnold Palmer on the regular drum outfit both achieved tympanic effects from their instruments in a highly amusing question-and-answer period near the end of Honeysuckle...
...fourteen solo songs, sung by soprano Anne Hollander, tenor Frank Davidoff and baritone Robert Simon, included examples of medieval French minstrelsy, with their German, Italian and English counterparts, plus accompanied songs by such later masters as Machaut, Dufay and Binchois...
...would have the voice of a Beniamino Gigli and the build of a Clark Gable. As she grew older, she developed a superb soprano voice and a tall (5 ft. 10 in.), statuesque build. Last week world-famous Soprano Tebaldi made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera opposite Tenor Mario Del Monaco (5 ft. 8½ in.), who-though highly gifted-is neither a Gigli in voice nor a Gable in height. Soprano Tebaldi (as Desdemona) seemed to tower over Tenor Del Monaco (as Otello). At a particularly tender moment in Verdi's powerful opera...
...although the TV screen virtually wiped out the color contrast between her and other singers. But as Puccini's melodramatic opera proceeded, Soprano Price's quietly expressive acting began to tell and she became Floria Tosca, coquettish in the arms of her handsome lover (handsomely sung by Tenor David Poleri), murderous in the arms of the villainous police chief (Baritone Josh Wheeler), and distraught at her lover's death. Vocally, she was head and shoulders above the others, crooning pearly high notes here, dropping into gutty dramatic tones there. She sang the great second-act aria, Vissi...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini...