Word: tagliavini
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...even within his own specialty, of lyric singing, Pavarotti cannot match many of hs predecessors. For all its ease, the voice simply does not have the sheer beauty of a Gigli or a Caruso or a Tagliavini. These were "golden voices"; the sound was not light and thin, but light and full, with richness and texture to the sounds they produced; they soothed and caressed your ears. Pavarotti's voice is pretty, but not as startlingly beautiful...
Ferruccio Tagliavini asked his audience at the HST to be kind to him, and for pity's sake, perhaps, they were. They cheered...
...mixed colorless Italian and Spanish songs with minor arias by Cilea, Caccini, Massenet, Lalo, Puccini, and Bellini, and since the Puccini was "E Lucevan le Stelle," which is barely music, Bellini was left as the tallest of the pygmies. An usher told me that Tagliavini has been singing these bleak, unimaginative programs for years...
...Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Guests: Ferruccio Tagliavini, Teresa Stratas, George Ricci, Conductor Milton Katims...
LUIGI FERDINANDO TAGLIAVINI of the Conservatory of Bolzano, Italy will speak on "Early Italian Organs and Organ Music" in Room 2 of the Music Building...