Word: tenorizing
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...Americans have heard of Piccaver. Yet he is a great artistic success and celebrity in Europe. And he is an American. Fifteen years ago Alfred Piccaver, young possessor of a promising tenor voice, left Philadelphia and went to Europe to study. He made progress, sang in small companies, received ovations. Ten years ago he secured an engagement with the Vienna Opera, then in its glory. He made a prodigious triumph, established himself quickly as Vienna's favorite tenor. As seasons passed he strengthened his position until he became a veritable institution of the city, fêted and acclaimed. The War came...
...allowed her to sing in Vienna during the off-season period. Jeritza returned from the amazing triumph of her first New York season, and during the closing weeks of opera in Vienna that Spring sang once more alongside of her old companion star, Piccaver. There was trouble now. The tenor held that the soprano, madly flushed with her New York success, had grown haughty and overbearing. She adopted the grand manner with the other singers, assumed dictatorship over the management of the company, called off rehearsals at her whim, delayed beginnings of performances, made the length of intermissions suit...
Last Spring Jeritza returned after her second New York season, and Vienna greeted her with a tremendous ovation. Her feud with the tenor assumed larger proportions. The first excitement came when he refused to sing a performance of La Tosca with her in May. The composer, Puccini, had come to Vienna to direct his Manon Lescaut. He took a hand in the disturbance, effected a partial reconciliation between the angry singers. They appeared in La Tosca together...
...trouble has begun again. The soprano and the tenor have had a violent disagreement, and Piccaver has resigned his post at the Vienna Opera. The management is trying frantically to calm the stormy waters, for their opera troupe is sadly deficient in tenors, but Piccaver announces firmly that he is done, that he will come to the U. S., which he has not seen in 15 years, for a concert tour during the approaching season...
...large violin, played in the customary position for the violin. Its tone is very distinctive, deeper, mellower and moodier than that of the violin. Its lack lies in variety. It does not have the alternate darkness and brightness of the violin or the alternate bass strength and majesty and tenor fervor of the violoncello, but preserves a characteristic romantic melancholy throughout...