Word: tenors
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Invitation to Music (Wed. 11:30 p.m., CBS). Igor Stravinsky conducts his Persephone. Soloist: Tenor William Hess...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, with Soprano Eleanor Steber, Tenor Charles Kullmann...
...Baptist Church, largely because the late Rev. Wesley G. Parks was deeply interested in . music, loved his choirs and encouraged any outstanding singer in them. At 13, Marian was singing in the church's adult choir. She took home the scores, and sang all the parts (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) over & over to her family until she had learned them. Since work is also a religion to her, Miss Anderson considers this one of the most important experiences of her life. She could then sing high C like a soprano...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). Gounod's Faust, with Tenor Jussi Bjoerling, Basso Ezio Pinza, Soprano Renée Mazella...
...Baritone Mario Ancona's Eri tu from The Masked Ball (1907). Even scratchier is Luisa Tetrazzini's carelessly sung Voi che sapete from The Marriage of Figaro (1908). Enrico Caruso's faltering Rachel, quand du seigneur, from La Juive, was recorded in 1920 when the great tenor's voice was running down.* Victor has far better Tetrazzini and Caruso records in its files, and obviously wasn't shooting the works the first time around...