Word: tucker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Carmen, with Stevens. Tucker, Silveri, Conner...
...more valuable if those in charge paid more attention to the lecture part of the so-called concert-lectures. At least half of the music in the second program Thursday night could have used explication, and since all the composers were present, there can be no excuse for Gregory Tucker's superficial introductory remarks, which served as the lecture...
...Violin and Piano (1943) mostly because of its more lyrical themes and greater restraint. Copland's music has a distinctive fresh-air quality that compares favorably with the suffocating works of some of his contemporaries. All that his music requires for maximum effect is a straightforward performance, and Mr. Tucker is above all a straightforward performer...
Tenor Richard Tucker had a triumph of his own. Singing his first Don José, he proved again that his is probably the finest tenor to be heard today. No actor, he made a brave try to be one, and in the blazing fourth act succeeded. The rest of the cast, notably Frank Guarrera as Escamillo and Nadine Conner as Micaela, rallied to the cause. The orchestra, under Conductor Fritz Reiner, turned in a subtle and glowing performance...
...disaster of the Little Big Horn. But, even during the massacre, the film hedges on its six-shooting action and offers only a distant and muddy-colored glimpse. Based on one of Ernest Haycox's cow-country novels, Bugles is nearly as empty of content as surprises. Forrest Tucker rings a few changes on the role of a comedy Irish trooper, arid Director Roy Rowland, by repeated applications of Hollywood oil, almost manages to keep the lumbering plot from creaking too loudly...