Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white tie and tails. Of the 60 guests, 40 were in 18th century costume, and their names made a roll call of Boston's social top drawer. Occasion: a performance of selections from French Composer Jean-Philippe Rameau's comic ballet Platée (1745), with French Tenor Michel Sénéchal in his U.S. debut. Place: the 60-seat, century-old Varieties Theater in the Brookline mansion of Boston Socialite Mrs. George Shattuck, one of the few surviving private stages...
Bach: Arias (The Bach Aria Group, conducted by William Scheide; Decca). One of the nation's finest chamber groups, including Soprano Eileen Farrell and Tenor Jan Peerce, offers masterful performances of some little-known arias and duets from the Bach cantatas. At least two of them-Gott versorget alles Leben from Cantata 187 and Wenn kommt der Tag from Cantata 70-deserve a place on any Bach shelf...
Died. Mario Lanza (Alfredo Arnold Cocozza), 38. golden-throated tenor who aspired to be a second Caruso but lacked the self-discipline to train his voice, went instead on a ten-year whirl of Hollywood, where he grossed $5,000,000 from films (The Great Caruso) and recordings (Be My Love, The Loveliest Night of the Year) that sold more than a million copies each, collected a mass of button-snatching fans who fed his conviction that his loud voice was a great one; of a heart attack; in Rome. Lanza quarreled capriciously with his Hollywood benefactors, was sued...
Maria Meneghini Callas, a famous diva. . .Soprano Giovanni Meneghini, her aging husband. . .Bass Elsa Maxwell, her trusted confidante Baritone Evangelia Callas, her estranged mother. . .Contralto Aristotle Onassis, a wealthy shipowner. . .Tenor Athina Onassis, his beautiful young wife. . .Mezzo...
...many of the recommendations, there were bitter dissents by Southern members and by angry Southern Senators and Congressmen who were tipped in advance about the report. Commission Member John Battle disagreed with the "nature and tenor" of the report, said that in large part it was "an argument in advocacy of preconceived ideas in the field of race relations." In answer, Chairman Hannah reminded that racial discrimination was a problem "that is native to neither North nor South. It is, rather, a dilemma that concerns all Americans...