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On the Aisle: Week-end Notes, Particularly on Richard Tucker's Singing and the Dancing of Jon Lei
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| Title | On the Aisle: Week-end Notes, Particularly on Richard Tucker's Singing and the Dancing of Jon Lei |
| Creator | Cassidy, Claudia |
| Description | Review of Carmencita Romero's "more or less West Indian revue", comparing it unfavorably to Dunham's company performances. Contrasts Dunham's "piquant pungency and her choreographic gift" |
| Collection | SCRC Text (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) |
| Subcollection | Katherine Dunham Papers |
| Original Publication Source | Chicago Tribune - Trends in Fashion |
| Place Written | Chicago, IL |
| Date(s) | 1947-05-19 |
| Page(s) | 25 |
| Subjects -titles | Pagan Drums |
| Subjects -people | Lei, Jon ; Romero, Carmencita ; Dunham, Katherine |
| Collection ID/Box# | FP20_7_F1DUNHAM_B102_F15_01 |
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| Transcript | ON THE AISLE
-By Qoudio Coaaidy-
Week-end Notes, Particularly on Richard Tucker's Singing arid the Dancing of Jon Lei
Whirosical not to say fantastical are the ways of music. Despite hit value as a tenor when tlie Metropolitan Opera came visiting Richard Tucker was buried alive in miscasting, as his only appearance was as the false Dimitri in " Boris Godunoff, " with mutually inimical results. But j;eaterday he could choose his own music as soloist with the Jewish People* Choral society in Orchestra hall, and while he sang " O Paradiso " aa a good opera tenor should, with ardor and a kind ot soaring brilliance, h sang the Hebraic music to make me wonder what would happen in an u house some night If he were——--———-————^-__-.
Eleazar in "La Juiv I think the place might blaze with e\citenient for Jlr Tutker has Iiat must be the true loice tf the Cdntoi It Js beautiful of course It has waimth le^onanci brillianci and power But is has qjali the i-aaal and i tual to set it apari It hds authority which is ^! of piophetic digrif
weakened by undependable produo
tion and by a confusion in vaiuei
which does not always know the dlT-
'tween the sensitive and
Pagan Dru
biai
^^Kill I
that while the 1 re of Ijric dec-iai
m s ne^e- ost it is but
Pans to the end of poignant
ihle addi ess Mani an opera
been „iati(ul f^r that \o tf
Maldj s could take inlo the opt
make it supieme in the '^jha-
Tl e choru happien when It sanfe with all the stops out wasj ¦elebratmg its fSd aniual lOi tert, . under the dnection of Eugene'i Malck If wa*; occasionally 'lup-j ported if that i'' the i ght
itment of 20 odd oichestra
and Mr Tuckei was loined
bv three othei soloists Phil p Black.
Henrietta Chase and Mari
i for an abudRtd afteimath
of Handel s Judas Maccabaeu;
Also on the week end calendar
ere Signiund Romberg s Oi'
ill concert and the recital h Nel-
m Woodley and Ihe dance
called Pagan Drums which gave
Kimball liali a bus faundiy No
alterations to report on the
Rombeig scene ot what th? public
he couldn t keep on
I doing it to capacitj houses Mr,
Rornbeig s little joke'; his orches-
tta his soloists and his progianis
aie still good bad and indiffeient
in the same ways and places But
\ou ma-\ like knowing he now has
a medley -of Brahms melod es which
combines in a manner of speaking,
suLh items as the Cradle song and
the finale to tht Fust Symphony.
Negio bar tone
., " Carmencita rS^T, ' less West Indian probably takes its cue from ithe Katherine Dunham shows, but j
lacks Miss Dunham's piquant pungency and her choreographic gift, and ends by resembling an in¬ ferior night club show with out¬ breaks of talent. The first half wall gayest in Trinidad carnival with sly folk lore gaily acted out by an en- troupe with more talent than places to display it, and most brilliant whenever the stage was held by Jon Lei. a brown skinned j boy worth watching. I think h f may be set off by rockets.
M Woodiei i\ho had Giaie theticalh hut not alwa% s a''(.urately r
acting li'f of distinguished songs ( and sang what I heard of ther. I plligtntly m a light \oicc ot soodjiun
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| Original Format | review |
| Original dimensions (cm.) | 29 x 12 |
| Digital Object Type | Image |
| Digital File Format | .tif |
| Digital File Publisher | Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. |
| Language | English |
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