Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canada-born Eddie Johnson had held grand opera's No. 1 managerial post for 15 years. Before that, he had been a world-famous tenor who got his start in Italy as Edoardo di Giovanni. In 1922, under his rightful name, he became Tenor Johnson...
...when Tenor Lauritz Melchior was taken ill before a scheduled matinee performance of Siegfried...
...drugs and debauchery. A lot of what Rimbaud (rhymes with Sambo) had to say was "indecent," Ashton told himself; but perhaps he could put Rimbaud into successful ballet just the same. Ashton's countryman, Composer Benjamin Britten, had set nine songs from Rimbaud's Les Illuminations for tenor voice and string orchestra. Last month, with Britten's music in his baggage, Ashton set out for Manhattan...
...incompatible philosopher-historians, Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee. For intuitive insight into the mood of our time he has consulted the novelists: Proust, Mann, Joyce, Kafka, Sartro, and Camus. This seems to be the century of feeling rather than reason, and the writers were better able to feel the tenor of their time than the professional philosophers have been able to intellectualize it. The novelists were intensely subjective, relativistic, and often, like Kafka, gave a sense of the little man being enmeshed in incomprehensible forces. Also, they agreed with Spengler and Toynbee that our's is a decaying civilization. Added...
Last week, in white tie & tails bought with a loan arranged, by Impresario Kachouk, Tenor Jadan stood confidently before the piano on the stage of Manhattan's Town Hall to sing his first recital in eight years. His tenor was a little rusty, and he had not yet worked back to his former full-voiced power. But he sang the songs of Mozart, Beethoven, Wolf, Verdi with lyrical warmth and expressiveness that reminded some of Caruso indeed. He also sang the songs of Tchaikovsky, Glinka and other Russians and he reduced a house filled largely with Russian expatriates...