Word: tucker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe representatives are: Student Government president, Nancy Barrow '53, vice-president Gracia Taketa '53, Gloria Wagstaff '52, and Elizabeth Tucker...
...point in La Bohème, Rodolfo, the tenor lover, sings out: "Who am I?-I am a poet ... In poverty I yet indulge myself like a Grand Seigneur in rhymes . . ." When Richard Tucker sings those lines he can partly mean them: in his eight years at the Metropolitan Opera, he has been privately amusing himself by writing doggerel. Last week Tucker gave out some samples...
Says Doggereleer Tucker, "I've got a whole drawer of them...
Playing the Franck F minor Quintet is bound to be risky. The work is so familiar to most chamber music enthusiasts that they can detect even the slightest mistakes. But Gregory Tucker and the Stradivarius Quartet gave a performance that came close to perfection in both technique and interpretation. The group wisely stressed the score's broad outlines, and lightly passed over some of its more distressing chromatic sections. The only real flaws were some late entrances by violinists Wolfe Wolfinsohn and Harry Kobialka, but these were fortunately infrequent...
...teacher at Longy, has an eclectic style that echoes everyone from Faure to Copland. He excels in simple melodic and harmonic patterns, but when he tries to be more elaborate the outcome is not always successful. Paul Matthen sang with restraint and delicacy, accompanied by the always competent Mr. Tucker...