Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Caruso (M-G-M), a quasi-biography of the late great tenor, is weak on facts and weaker as fiction, but as a well-recorded pops concert featuring the impressive voice of Mario Lanza (TIME, March 19), it is a tidy package of entertainment that music lovers can enjoy with their eyes shut...
...Lucky Stars (Sun. 10:45 p.m., ABC) is a folksy, unsponsored 15 minutes with Paul Whiteman spinning 20-year-old records and reminiscing about the good old days ("I can remember when Bing Crosby had hair and was a tenor"). Teen-Ager Junie Keegan asks the questions of "Pops" Whiteman, and treats his answers with the proper daughterly respect...
Vaughan Williams himself calls Progress "a morality." He had picked out nine episodes from Bunyan's book, but none of them conveyed much drama or continuity of struggle. The staging was uninspired, and the Pilgrim (sung by Tenor Arnold Matters) wandered from the City of Destruction to Mount Sion like an unruffled country vicar...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Luigi Infantine, tenor; Carlo Badioli, bass; Giulietta Simionato, mezzo-soprano; Giuseppe Taddei, baritone; Antonio Cas-sinelli, bass; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Fernando Previtali conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Barber fans, used to hearing Rosina's arias trilled airily by a coy soprano, will be surprised to hear the role sung here by a more mature-sounding mezzo - as Rossini wrote it. Mezzo Simionato brings it off beautifully; so does Baritone Taddei as Figaro. Conductor Previtali keeps it sparkling throughout. Recording: excellent...
...annual concert for the benefit of the Orchestra's Pension Fund. For the first time in 25 years the entire Glee Club was not invited to sing at this event. Only 123 singers will represent the combined choral groups this year. David Lloyd is the tenor soloist...