Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Take the Army meet, for instance. On paper, the Cadets loomed as the strongest team in the Heptagonal league. Senior weight thrower Pete Harpel set the tenor of the meet in the first event. He threw the 35-pound ball 55 feet, 6 inches, six feet farther than his best last season, to pick up the first place for the varsity...
Opera's cheeriest cherub, Baritone Robert Weede, 53, euphoric title roler of the Broadway hit musical The Most Happy Fella, recalled his own slow rise in music. "Singing success must be gained too quickly nowadays," said he. His most significant case in point: bullish Movie Tenor Mario (The Great Caruso) Lanza...
...coat, Arturo Toscanini walked into NBC's Manhattan Studio 8-H and launched a Robert Shaw-trained chorus and a handful of soloists into the music he loved: Verdi's melodramatic, tearfully tender Aïda. With cajolery, threats and sarcasm ("Mr. Tucker," he inquired scathingly of Tenor Richard Tucker, "do you love a woman?"), he shaped a magnificently precise and passionate performance, presented to NBC televiewers and listeners in the spring of 1949. When RCA Victor decided to cut records from the broadcast tapes, Toscanini returned from retirement in 1954 to conduct at Carnegie Hall portions...
...Otello and Falstaff as his operatic testament. The NBC Symphony plays with brilliant coloring and syllable-sharp instrumental detail ; the singers-some less than top drawer-are whipped almost beyond their powers to high moments of musical exaltation. The Met's Tucker, singing the full dramatic tenor role of Radames for the first time, has big, ringing power when he needs it, joined to a fervent, melting lyricism. Titian-haired Herva Nelli, Toscanini's favorite soprano, sings perhaps the finest Aïda of her career with rare intensity in a voice both sweet and sure...
...leading swing band, he provoked manifestos and a protest meeting. Passions were further inflamed when the news spread that leading male roles were cast with distinguished opera singers-rising Baritone Eberhard Wächter as Frank Butler; Karl Dönch, famed for his Beckmesser, as Chief Sitting Bull; Tenor Max Lorenz, a renowned Siegfried, as Buffalo Bill. After a rehearsal, onetime Metropolitan Soprano Brenda Lewis, the Annie Oakley and only American in a cast of 80, purred: "I had the impression that Lorenz thought he was playing Siegfried Get Your Annie...