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Show u Roy Whitby Wins Attention As Singer Mr. Roy Whitby, a native of Alpine, Al-pine, has won the attention of critics crit-ics in Los Angeles as a singer of coming note. The following item recently appeared ap-peared in the "Daily Times," one of Los Angeles' leading papers: "Many visitors to the Sunrise Service Ser-vice at Hollywood Bowl were disappointed disap-pointed at the unavoidable absence of Mr. Roy Whitby, Los Angeles' promising young baritone. A head cold prevented Mr. Whitby's appearance ap-pearance which your correspondent is not entirely sorry for- I must hasten to explain. As we all know, the oratorio singer is ao a disadvantage, disadvan-tage, for -oratorio singing is not music, but some churchly or Biblical Bib-lical message imprefectly disguised as such. Oratorios combine only the blending of tone and pitch and is lacking in range, color and quality. qual-ity. "Mr. Whitby does best on more difficult hemes- As we know a disciple of Paganini may not play chords as complex as does the vir-tuso vir-tuso of the keyboard; but he can and frequently does indulge in double-stopping, with the result that we then hear more than one note produced pro-duced at the same time. Mr. Whitby Whit-by is unique in that he seems, to trained ears, to give the tonal effect ef-fect of two notes at the same time, a feat heretofore unperformed by singers. "The oratorio would add nothing to Mr. Whitby's reputation, while the more difficult arias lend scope to such a voice so richly endowed in virtuosity." |