Word: tenorizing
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Love Duet (Helen Traubel, soprano; Torsten Ralf, tenor; Herta Glaz, contralto, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fritz Busch conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Traubel & Ralf take the famed love duet faster than Flagstad and Melchior. The result is surprisingly warmer, and the orchestral setting is fuller. Recording: good...
Once, in rehearsal, Toscanini directed his scorn at big-voiced Chilean Tenor Ramon Vinay, who has done the role of Otello at the Met. Said Toscanini: "Haven't you ever been in love? You have to be persuasive and gentle in love-even if she is your wife...
...assist on a public nuisance of 1941 called The Hut-Sut Song, wrote Hi, Neighbor, a song which has become the nightly entering wedge of Pal Joey-type masters of ceremony the U.S. over. He composed for Red Skelton something called I Dood It, and in his own tenor voice has crooned the merits of orange drinks and frankfurters for singing commercials...
...children who had been playing in the yard eyed us closely. They too were prisoners (the Communists use children for petty spying and to plant explosives, the guide said). Most of the other prisoners, standing in military formations, were singing. Phrase by phrase, the grey-uniformed men followed their tenor leaders in one song called I Love My Gun, another, Victory Song. They sang in excellent unison, breath steaming in the cold...
...Thanksgiving turkey. To share buxom Helen Traubel's Wagnerian roles (so that Traubel could concertize for half the season), the Met had imported a six-foot, 200-pound German soprano named Erna Schleuter. Opposite her, as Tristan in the season's first Tristan und Isolde, was German Tenor Max Lorenz, who had not been heard at the Met since...