Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most evenings Tenor Herb Surface turns up at Manhattan's Mark Hellinger Theater at 8, slips into baggy trousers, tweed jacket and cap, and steps onto the stage as a member of the Cockney quartet which helps ring down the curtain on My Fair Lady's first act: "All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air . . ." But one day last week, as he has for many weeks, Tenor Surface got to Times Square early. At 5:30 he joined other members of the My Fair Lady chorus in a studio above Lindy...
...Tenor Surface was singing Rodolfo in Puccini's La Bohème. It was the latest effort of one of the U.S.'s most remarkable opera groups, run by members of the Fair Lady cast for their own training and amusement...
...large cast, while not having extraordinary voices as a rule, performed credibly, with tenor Malcolm Ticknor and bass Thomas Beveridge singing especially well. A fine all-around performance by David Black as one of the Chaplains stood out especially. With a better libretto, this could really be an exciting new opera, but even for those who don't find the prospect of seeing a good modern work attractive watching, An Incomplete Education may be better than staying home to study "Ictheology...
...carefree '20s came Gene Austin, asweet-voiced tenor whose story was evocatively told last week on NBC-TV's Goodyear Playhouse. Millions of televiewers had never heard of him, but other millions (over 40) had grown up and fallen in and out of love listening to him sing on records or radio. After thumping a piano in brothels around the country, then touring in vaudeville, Gene began recording, and chiefly between 1924 and 1930 sold 86 million records. Barrel-shaped but still velvet-throated at 56, Tenor Austin, singing the sound track, brought back the nostalgic old daze...
...turned art teacher, in a hotel on the Left Bank. Having begun to paint as a toddler, Hasan has had a one-man show in Turkey, exhibited his canvases in both Paris and New York (TIME, Nov. 10, 1952). ¶ Ates Pars, 14, son of an Ankara State Opera tenor and a former member of the opera chorus, both of whom were violently opposed to his becoming a musician ("The life of an artist is too hard"). Two years ago they made the mistake of buying a piano, which Ates promptly began to play. After only 22 lessons, his music...