Word: tenoring
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...their boss, defiantly puffing cigar smoke at the stars, was unmoved by beauty. Sick of his job as UNRRA head, Fiorello H. LaGuardia sent up a tenor shout that carried over the quiet water: "I'd like to cause a fight so that they'd throw me out right...
...student casts alternated on different evenings in singing Peter Grimes. Tenors Joseph Laderoute and William Home in the title role wrestled with the high notes which Britten had created for his good friend Tenor Peter Pears (pronounced Peers) whose coloratura-like soarings are a legend in England. The most unimpressed member of the Tanglewood audience was Composer Britten himself. Said he stiffly: "There's no use pretending it was professional. ... It was a very lively student performance...
...Hotter, a Munich Opera baritone, sing a roughly hewn but virile hero in Mozart's Don Giovanni. The cast included a promising, pretty, 30-year-old Bulgarian soprano named Ljuba Welitsch, who was the hit of the Vienna opera season in Salome. Don Ottavio was sung by Yugoslav Tenor Anton Dermota, whose performance was uneven, but at its best better than any Don Ottavio that Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera has heard in years. Eight years of Hitlerism had not destroyed the old Austro-German tradition of stagecraft; Don Giovanni had been so painstakingly rehearsed that every part added...
...Opera (Sun. 7 p.m., Mutual). Mezzo-soprano Rise Stevens and Tenor Eugene Conley sing Bizet, Puccini and Thomas arias in English...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Tenor James Melton, guest...