Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exception to this iron rule, Lauritz Melchior spent eight years before he rated a contract (in Copenhagen's Royal Opera) and a regular salary-1,000 kroner (about $200) a year. While he was still singing baritone roles at the Royal Opera, the eminent, U. S.-born vocal expert, Mme Charles Cahier, heard him, and wrote the director of the opera that Melchior was really no baritone but a tenor with the lid on. After he had practiced lifting the lid, he was allowed to sing his first tenor role: Tannhäuser...
...figures in Spanish music. It also typifies one of the first forms in which keyboard music was composed. Writing variations on a melody was of course a very obvious way of employing in extended compositions the capabilities of these newly developed instruments. Its ascetic reserve, the strong influence of vocal style, and the simple form of Cabezon's compositions give them a quiet charm characteristic of early keyboard music...
...Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Wilfred Pelletier conducting, with Lawrence Tibbett. Giovanni Martinelli, Helen Jepson and other artists; Victor: 12 sides). A much abridged edition of Verdi's great Shakespearean opera, so well recorded that you can almost hear the dust blowing off Tenor Martinelli's aging vocal chords...
Shortly before Recorder Mapleson died, in 1937, a deaf but diligent phonographic antiquarian named William H. Seltsam got permission to go through the Mapleson records. There, Collector Seltsam found not only peeping vocal relics of such golden-agers as Emma Eames, Johanna Gadski, Marcella Sembrich, but 16 records of the otherwise unrecorded* Jean de Reszke. Thrilled Phonographer Seltsam started raising money to re-record Mapleson's de Reszke samples on modern discs...