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DONALD DICKSON (PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, USA, 6 NOVEMBER, 1910 – BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, USA, 21 SEPTEMBER, 1972)

 

 

 

 

A graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, Dickson was a winner of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air. He made his debut at the Met as Valentin in Faust in 1937. His other roles there were Silvio in Pagliacci and four parts in Damrosch’s Man Without a Country. Dickson’s popular and financial success on the radio led to his departure from operatic work. Concert tours throughout the U.S. followed, although he was heard in New York only in three Town Hall recitals: 1941, 1948 and 1954. He supposedly made unsuccessful attempts to do tenor operatic roles in his later years.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

1. Andrea Chénier (Giordano) Nemico della patria Broadcast 1941
2. Canto di primavera (Cimara) Broadcast 1939
3. Don Carlo (Verdi) Per me è giunto Victor 18357-B
4. Extase (Ecstasy) (Jean Lahor-Henri Duparc) Victor 2194-A
5. Faust (Gounod) Finale (w. Moore & Björling) Broadcast 1937
6. Faust (Gounod) O santa medaglia… Dio possente Broadcast 1937
7. Hallelujah Hit the deck (Youmans) Broadcast 1941
8. L’heure exquise (Tempting Hour) (Paul Verlaine-Poldowski) Victor 2194-B
9. Midnight in Paris (Conrad-Magidson) Broadcast 1939
10. Nebbie (Negri-Respighi) Victor 2024-A
11. Oh that it were so (Bridge) Broadcast 1939
12. Omnipotence (Schubert) Broadcast 1939
13. Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) Si puo? Broadcast 1939
14. Rose of the world (Herbert) Broadcast 1942
15. Sorrow in spring (Rachmaninoff Op. 21, No. 12) Victor 4548-B
16. Strike up the band (Gershwin) Broadcast 1939
17. Tarantella Napoletana La Danza (Pepoli-Rossini) Victor 2024-B
18. The One Girl (Youmans) Broadcast 1939
19. The Rosary (Nevin) Broadcast 1939
20. Torna a Surriento (De Curtis) Broadcast 1939