Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wagner: Die Walküre, Duet from Act I, Scene 3; Act III complete (Helen Traubel, soprano; Herbert Janssen, baritone; Emery Darcy, tenor; vocal ensemble of the Metropolitan Opera; the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 4 sides, LP). Great music sung by great singers. Conductor Rodzinski gives it the pace and force to make it an exciting performance. Recording: excellent...
Rallies habitually provided trouble both before and after the war. But before the war the vocal public reaction was, "Those Harvard boys are at it again." Today the vocal reaction is, "Those Harvard Reds." The Dean's Office doesn't like the sound of the latter. The limitations on rallies are its answer...
...mixed reactions. The Times-Herald found that "the fresh and brilliant luster of two years ago has been exchanged for a warmth and depth of tone that the music lovers found exciting." The Washington Post admitted some improvement but added tartly: "Miss Truman is too much of a vocal beginner to appear in public...
...Statler Hotel, he beamed handsomely at the biggest crowds the nitery had ever seen, contentedly mooed the season's ballads in a domesticated baritone. Behind him were 23 dapper and earnest young men, a quintet of well-groomed young women carefully schooled to furnish a plush vocal cushion for what has been called everything from "The Voice with Hair on its Chest" to the "Million-Dollar Monotone." The Jeanette (Pa.) High School boy-most-likely-to-succeed (Class of '29) was definitely a success...
...made 38-year-old Vaughn Monroe's outfit a $2,000,000-a-year business was partly luck, mostly hard work and sound business sense. When he got a chance to head his own twelve-piece band in 1940, Monroe gave up his concert ambitions, trained with a vocal coach for four months to tone his big voice down to dance-hall size. At the same time he mapped out his strategy for winning the public. One important campaign detail: constant caravaning through the hinterlands...