Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-11-14 | Page 11 | Gigli Declares Love for Swing, but When It's Opera, He'll Sing

Gigli Declares Love for Swing But When Wh n Its It's Opera pera Hell He'll Sing Tenor Gives Proof Hes He's No Musical Snob Beniamino Beniamino Gigli the tenor whom some critics have placed laced above the great Caruso and and nd who devotes his art exclusively to the classics and the operas in in Salt Lake f lit fr a Ih hf In J J v proved himself not to be a musical snob by declaring I 1 love swing Its It's wonderful to hear and to dance to and the Americans Americans Amer Amen are specialists in this type of music But just one thing Dont Don't swing the classics the operas By way of illustration he hummed a few bars from one of the arias in his repertoire then to demonstrate the incongruity of jazz treatment of such a melody got in a few good licks sending it in light mug mug- ging Under auspices of the Associated Male Glee Clubs of America Utah district he will appear on a program program program pro pro- gram in the L. L D. D S. S tabernacle at p. p m. m Also so on the program although not singing with Mr Gigli will be Utah singers members of the Mendelssohn chorus of Provo the Imperial glee club of Logan the Ogden Male Singers the Gustaf Adolf male chorus and the Orpheus club of Salt Lake City Returning to the United States on September 29 to take up a concert concert con con- cert cent tour after six years abroad Mr Gigli said that while all over the world h he hii found a preference for the classical it is in the United States that he draws the largest crowds A A native of Rome he had only one comment on international affairs I He bespoke an admiration for Premier Premier Pre Pro mier Benito Mussolini of Italy Ai ENIA BENIAMINO GIGLI He loves swing