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Selections from Six Wagnerian Operas (Lauritz Melchior, tenor, with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy, the Victor Symphony and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra conducted by Edwin McArthur; Victor: 10 sides; $5.50). In fine fettle, so well in the groove that you can almost see him bounding Wagneriously, Tenor Melchior gives voice to airs from Lohengrin, Tannhauser, Die Meistersinger, Flying Dutchman, Siegfried. Soprano Kirsten Flagstad joins him in the opening duet from Die Göiterdämmerung...
Seeking Divorce. Morton Downey, 39, rotund radio tenor; from Barbara Bennett Downey, 34, second of the cinemadoll Bennett sisters; after twelve years' marriage; charging cruelty; in Bridgeport, Conn. Mrs. Downey, while declining to contest the suit, intended to fight if necessary for custody of their five children...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Coleman Hawkins and Big Sidney Catlett will be featured at the Crown Hotel jam session in Providence on Sunday. The Hawk is playing a lot of tenor these days any you don't want to miss him ... Record of the week: Jelly Jelly, a slow blues by Earl Hines. Soloists include the Father opening up with some elaborate piano, one of his best recent recorded solos; and a vocal backed by guitar fillins which give the chorus a pleasantly simple contrapuntal quality. Everybody comes in for the finish, and it's stuff like this which makes...
Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who are none too fond of each other professionally, sang Tristan und Isolde one night last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. This popular team had impersonated Wagner's potion-bibbing lovers many a time before. But this time Tristan was an event. In the pit was the Met's first U. S.-born, U. S.-trained conductor, sandy-haired, bespectacled Edwin McArthur...
...numbers--which incidentally have been featured with Harry James and Duke Ellington--have that element of spontaneity and life which you'll only find in colored entertainment, and which is sadly lacking in the run-of-the-mill Boston floor show. Last week I went overboard for Roscoe's tenor work. I've heard him several times since then and still haven't eaten my words. If you do go down to the Savoy, ask the band to play Liebestraum, and listen to the way Roscoe builds up chorus after chorus until you say to yourself, it's just...