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...TRISTAN HEARST BURTON JAMIESON JR. Brown University Providence...
...heroic tenor.''* At first it looked like another publicity stunt. Knabe Co., purveyor of pianos to the Metropolitan Opera, offered a prize of a Baby Grand. Melchior, the Met's foremost Wagnerian tenor, announced the contest: "Many of us look to America to produce the great Tristan or Parsifal of the future...
...Germans say ein Hcldcntcnor, mean a full, powerful, wide-ranged voice capable of such dramatic roles as Tristan, Parsifal, Siegfried. Like the late great Jean de Reszke, Melchior began his career as a baritone. Novelist Hugh Walpole staked him to the study that turned him out a tenor...
...then that he had memorized the scores because he was so nearsighted. It never occurred to them that a man might see with his ears and hear with his soul. His way was to absorb music. Back in Italy he went on proving his powers. At 27 he conducted Tristan und Isolde in Turin. His heart thumped for three months afterwards and he slept much less than his four hours a night. In 1898 he and Gatti were asked to reorganize the Scala. They did such a good job that the Metropolitan wanted them...
...lonely island of Tristan da Cunha, 2,000 mi. west of the Cape of Good Hope, the S.S. Atlantis put ashore last week Rev. Harold Wilde, 40, Anglican minister, and twelve tons of supplies. He will remain on the island for at least three years, caring for the souls of its 66 inhabitants who have had no minister for two years...