Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Krutch considers Gray's letters "deservedly among the most famous which have come down to us"; but this is strictly a scholar's opinion. On the few occasions when Gray kicked up his heels his letters brightened, but for the most part they reflect exactly the noiseless tenor of his studious...
Rossini: William Tell (with Giuseppe Taddei, baritone, Mario Filippeschi, tenor, Rosanna Carteri, soprano; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana of Turin, Mario Rossi conducting; Cetra-Soria, 8 sides). A rousing version of a masterpiece too seldom performed (its last performance at the Metropolitan Opera was in 1931, and no tenors have looked strong enough to warrant its production there since). Filippeschi blasts out his killing high notes with plenty of steam. Recording : on the shrill side...
...URGENTLY PROTEST THE TENOR OF YOUR JUNE 2 ARTICLE ON THE GERMAN WAR PRISONERS AT SPANDAU REFERENCE TO THESE MEN AS "SEVEN OF THE BLACKEST NAZIS STILL ALIVE" IS CONTRARY TO FACT, BIASED, AND SERVES TO PREJUDICE THE PENDING APPEALS FOR THESE MEN. RUDOLF HESS TOOK POSITIVE ACTION FOR PEACE EARLY IN WORLD WAR II. GRAND ADMIRAL DOENITZ AND ADMIRAL RAEDER WERE COURAGEOUS NAVAL LEADERS. BARON VON NEURATH, ALBERT SPEER, WALTER FUNK AND BALDUR VON SCHIRACH WERE FAITHFUL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICIALS. ALL OF THESE GENTLEMEN DID THEIR DUTY AS THEY SAW IT AND THEIR MISFORTUNE LAY MERELY IN BEING...
...only casualty was Tenor Kurt Baum of the Metropolitan Opera, who sang the young lover Arnoldo; on Tell's opening night, his voice cracked on some nearly impossible high notes, and before long had the hypercritical Italian audience jeering. Said a theater official, mopping his neck between acts: "There is always an atmosphere of the battlefield about our performances, but this is the most ferocious audience I have seen in 30 years...
...nights later, at a second performance, Tenor Baum redeemed himself magnificently. Extra police were in the balcony to keep Florentines from violence if he fluffed again. The big test was the fourth act, where the tenor has an aria lasting ten minutes and running the entire tenor scale. As Baum began to climb to the high notes, the usually noisy galleryites were quiet as mice. When he got to the stratospheric climax and crashed out the finish, the audience applauded its hands raw, cheered itself hoarse. Tenor Baum grinned like a schoolboy...