Word: tenoring
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Veteran singers who for years have been getting by on their voices alone nervously consulted their dressing-room mirrors, daubing on brown face paint (their usual bright red doesn't televise well). To look his best, Tenor Ramon Vinay turned up in the purple burnoose that famed Actor Edwin Booth wore as Othello...
...Tenors Needed. A big 1948 weekend, say Jones & O'Riley, costs the college man anywhere from $35 to $60. Williams, like Dartmouth, is a skiing college: "You'll eat in ski pants, dance in ski pants, and if you ever get to bed, you might just as well sleep in ski pants." Amherst parties "are definitely of the beery, spur-of-the-moment variety"; a Holyoke girl once complained that "all they ask you for is to sing tenor in some quartet." Princeton parties are held "in rooms that seem no larger than a small station wagon...
...soloists will be--Soprano: Cynthia Sweeney, Radcliffe '50; Alto: Marion Hawkes, New England Conservatory; Tenor; Robert Gartside, Harvard '50; and Bass: Paul Tibbetts, Harvard...
...gave Dufay's Magnificat in the Eighth Mode a more forceful interpretation than the other old works on the program. Had her treatment been more Gregorian and less like Bach, I think she would have achieved a more impressive effect. Robert Gartside's tenor solo had a harshness quite congenial with the mystical quality of the work; in chorus parts, however, his strong voice too often stands out over all others...
Throughout the evening, each Club tried to out-do the other and make very clear who had the noblest tenor, the most resounding bass. Like the teams that followed them Saturday, the singers were "up" for this performance, and as one group finished their stint and marched off the stage, their rivals would do them one better and attack the first song with just a little more bravado and spirit. This successive trumping went on until the home club sang "Fair Harvard"; Yale had no more alma maters left and the concert was over...