Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past the Lyric has put on many a fine, star-heavy performance, and last week's cast was again impressive: Viennese Soprano Leonie Rysanek as Aïda, Italian Mezzo-Soprano Giulietta Simionato as Amneris, Swedish Tenor Jussi Bjoerling as Radames, Italian Baritone Tito Gobbi as Amonasro. But the stage sets looked as though they had been resurrected from an early copy of the Victor Book of Operas: cluttered scenes with every temple, tower and palm frond rendered in tedious detail. And Paris Opera Conductor Georges Sebastian throttled the tempo to a crawl, once even goaded Tenor Bjoerling into...
Last night's performance, which was led by the Glee Club's conductor, Victor Yellin, was generally uneven, though it too, like the Requiem, had some high points, notably the stunning Gregorian chant tenor solo, sung by Donald Brown. The Williams Glee Club sang with perfect intonation and balance, but these could not make up for its unpolished and open tone. An uneasy, strained quality dominated the performance, relieved only occasionally by sections of tonal warmth...
...with your instrument and with each other. It is so easy that in a few minutes you will play as well as if you had the instrument for years. The usual range of each voice has two octaves, hence an air sung by a bass voice lowest octave, by tenor or contralto at one octave above, soprano two octaves above. Every church without a paid choir should organize a Church Choir Band as a means of earning money for church purposes, and render KAZOO KONCERTS, as they invariably draw FULL HOUSES...
...suggestions which receive support will be fairly specific--like a program of aptitude tests--rather than the training program," Tiedeman remarked. "The tenor of the program is to emphasize the direction of bright students...
Such a description of the plot makes it sound melodramatic, which it is. The unlikelieness of her meeting the sergeant again, and the often unrealistic tenor of the dialogue, in which peasant women tend to talk in profound concepts of duty, etc., when isolated seem corny. But the situation can hold the actors in such a tension of dramatic excellence, and the film as a visual whole exerts such a physical impact, that the inherent melodrama and sentimentality blur into unimportance...