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Berlioz: Requiem (Emile Passani Choir and Orchestra, Jean Fournet conducting; Columbia, 22 sides). "If I were threatened with the destruction of the whole of my works save one," wrote Hector Berlioz, "I would crave mercy for the Requiem." Seldom performed because of its huge size (300 voices, a tenor soloist, the equivalent of four small orchestras, four brass bands and organ), it is one of the great choral works of all time. The performance, an excellent one, was recorded in France during the war. Recording: good...
Wall Streeters, who had had a dozen reasons for the market's slump during the summer, now had another dozen reasons for the rise. There was "a better tenor to foreign cables," it was only "the preelection rally," etc., etc. But there was also reason to believe that investors, who had mistrusted the solidity of the boom, were having their minds changed by fresh evidence...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest soloist: Met Tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini...
...Trace, born in Chicago 44 years ago, once thought that baseball would be his career. But he gave up ball-playing when he concluded that he could never hit .300. He knew how to bat the drums and sing a little-"I was what you call a dramatic tenor, singing The Road to Mandalay and stuff like that." After writing songs and "running material" fof WLS' National Barn Dance, he formed his own band. His first job: playing for Fan Dancer Sally Rand at Chicago's 1933 World's Fair...
Last year Tenor Beniamino Gigli heard María Helena, invited her to sing Mimi with him at a charity performance in the Teatro Presidente Alvear. There, talentwise Cirilo Grassi Díaz, manager of the Teatro Colón, heard her, offered her a chance at the Colón this season...