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...Swedish, proving that national style has nothing to do with nationality. Since the death of Leonard Warren in 1960, no one man has been acknowledged by critics and conductors as the quintessential Italian Baritone. Now, though, there may be a legitimate claimant to the title. Like Warren and Lawrence Tibbett before him, he too is an American: Sherrill Milnes, of Downers Grove...
...only other action, Quincy also won its second straight, defeating Dudley 6-0. A quick, hard defense made Joe Tibbett's touchdown stand up for the Orangemen...
...Office Glitter. Tibbett always had a faint distrust of grand opera's grand pretensions. The music of Jerome Kern, he used to argue, was as good as many an imported classic. When critics roasted him for including Old Man River in a program of operatic excerpts, he responded by including it in almost every recital he sang after that. He also laced his concert programs with popular tranquilizers-De Glory Road, Gwine to Hebb'n, At Dawning. Tibbett probably made more money than his contemporaries because he was the first to exploit the box-office glitter...
After he retired from the Met in 1950, Tibbett campaigned for more televised opera, explained that he wanted to cultivate a new audience for opera, unhampered by the kind of snobbery that was fostered in the boxes of the Golden Horseshoe. He had, in fact, created a new operatic audience long before television was born. When he died last week at 63, following head surgery, he was only a name to a whole younger generation of operagoers. But he left behind not only the echoes of a great voice but the memory of a performer who could feel equally...
Died. Lawrence Tibbett, 63, America's great baritone, Metropolitan Opera principal from 1925 to 1950, popular radio, cinema, Broadway and concert performer; following head surgery; in Manhattan (see MUSIC...