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Solos de Concours II: Music from the Premier Prix
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ASIN: B0009IW9BQ Release Date: 2005-05-31 |
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John Charles Thomas in Opera & Song
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ASIN: B000FDIZPO Release Date: 2006-08-08 |
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"If I had to choose the four greatest voices I've heard, I would list Thomas along with Enrico Caruso, Rosa Ponselle, and Ezio Pinza." -FRANK CHAPMAN, OPERA NEWSDuring his forty-eight year career, music critics ranked John Charles Thomas with Enrico Caruso, hailing him as one of the great voices of the twentieth century. One critic wrote, "I have seen a good many so-called enthralled audiences during my earthly career, I have seen them stand up and clap. I have heard them cheer. But I have never seen one just refuse to go home. That is ... until Mr. Thomas' concert". Thomas made his operatic debut in Washington as Amonasro in Aida, on the eve of President Coolidge's inauguration in 1924. Over seventy-eight minutes of music on one CD! This is the operatic companion disc to John Charles Thomas: An American Classic. Born in Meyersdale, Pennsylvania in 1891, John Charles Thomas studied voice at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. After a successful career in musical comedy, he made his operatic debut in Washington DC and later sang with the Royal Opera, Brussels. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1934 in Verdi's La traviata, joining the company in 1935. Well-known as a concert and radio singer, Thomas also appeared in motion pictures. He died in 1960. Despite his magnificent voice, critics were often unkind to Thomas because he advocated translating opera into English and sang a large number of light classics in his recitals, things that stereotyped him as a "bourgeois" artist.
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Holmès: Orchestral Works
Manufacturer: Marco Polo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000045YL Release Date: 1994-06-14 |
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Manufacturer: Symposium ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000009JSC Release Date: 1994-09-01 |
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Manufacturer: EMI Records [All429] ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000025VLI Release Date: 2001-09-04 |
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Ludwig van Beethoven , Charles Gounod , Camille Saint-Saens , Paul Vidal , Raphaelle Ivery , Gerard Parmentier , Charles Lefebvre , Andre Caplet , Franz-Xaver Gruber , and Augusta Holmes Manufacturer: Studio Sm ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000004A8C Release Date: 1996-01-30 |
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Manufacturer: Accord ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000004CC6 Release Date: 1995-10-24 |
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Manufacturer: Walsingham Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000040QE Release Date: 1995-05-23 |
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