Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manuscripts). On the other hand, Slonimsky has suffered his setbacks: no amount of sleuthing has ever revealed the official birth dates of Antonio Vivaldi or Enrico Caruso; no fewer than 13 Enrico Carusos were born in Naples on or about the date (Feb. 25, 1873) on which the tenor is assumed to have been born (he was the 18th or 19th of 21 children, most of whom did not survive infancy, and his parents probably did not bother to register his birth...
...prince owns a nice little tenor and is possessed with (or perhaps by) what somebody once called a sort of gee-whiz charm. No freckles were discernible on Mr. Cox's visage from Row H, but he played as if in his soul he were freckled. This was probably not what anybody had in mind, but it will certainly...
Beethoven: Twelve Scottish and Irish Songs (Richard Dyer-Bennet, tenor and instrumentalist; Dyer-Bennet Records). These rarely recorded songs are the fruits of a collaboration between Beethoven and a Scottish office clerk named George Thomson, who made a hobby of collecting folk music. To render his songs fit for the igth century drawing room, Thomson hired the best poets and composers of the day-Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Haydn, Beethoven. Between 1806 and 1818 Beethoven set more than 100 songs for Thomson for an estimated ?550. In this album the towering German genius is improbably linked to such folksy...
...hours, seven sopranos, two mezzos, four baritones, a tenor and a bass worked their way through arias from Mozart, Massenet, Verdi, Wagner. Then, while audience and contestants stepped up to Sherry's Bar for a breather, Bing retired to his office with the other judges, half an hour later came out with the names of the winners. The Met decided to award two contracts-to Tacoma's 30-year-old Baritone Roald Reitan and 20-year-old, Toronto-born Soprano Teresa Stratas. Baritone Reitan, who was turned down by a Met scout four years ago when he auditioned...
Died. Lester Willis ("Prez") Young, 49, whose light and easy tenor saxophone was among the coolest in the history of jazz, Mississippi-born alumnus of the Count Basie band; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Young became known as "The President" for his superiority in his field. His early influence helped...