Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buttenwieser did make his speech last week to the Foreign Policy Association, but he never got to speak to the Anti-Defamation League. Its 35-man national commission, studying a preview of his address, decided that it did not like its "general tenor," that it was "an apologia for the limited job that has been done to denazify Germany; and gives aid and encouragement to . . . vicious elements . . ." Mr. Buttenwieser was scratched off the convention program...
Kodaly: Psalmus Hungaricus (Gabor Carelli, tenor; North Texas State College Chorus, Dallas Children's Choir, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati conducting; Victor, 6 sides, 45 r.p.m.). Composed in 1923 to mark the soth anniversary of the union of the twin cities of Buda and Pest, this is probably 67-year-old Zoltan Kodaly's best work; in it is some of the most brilliant choral writing of the century. Performance and recording: excellent...
Mozart: Great Mass In C Minor, K. 427 (Rosl Schweiger and Hertha Toepper, sopranos; Hugo Meyer-Welfing, tenor; George London, bass; Anton Heiller, organist; the Akademie Chorus of Vienna, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Meinhard von Zallinger conducting; the Haydn Society, 4 sides LP). This is not the greatest of Mozart's 60 "operas for the angels," but it is one that deserves to be heard oftener. Performance and recording: good...
...Tenor Embrace. Standing between her mother & father after the encores, Anna Maria was embraced by Tenor Giovanni Martinelli and heard Baritone Giuseppe de Luca call her voice "a divine instrument." Said the New York Times next day: "Some of the purest, loveliest sounds that have been heard all season...
...History and Literature department suffered the greatest less possible in the death of its outstanding faculty member, Professor Matthiesses. Next year, several of its best tutors, such as Messrs. Holland and Levinson in the American field, will not be here. But personnel changes will not affect the general tenor of the field, which, under the chairmanship of Elliot Perkins, will continue its tradition of high standards and broad interests for undergraduates interested in both the social sciences and the humanities...