Richard Tucker

Person · Open Library

Works

14

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1958-10-10

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

3,330

Total plays

17,701

Richard Tucker (August 28, 1913 – January 8, 1975) was an American tenor. He was born Ruvn Ticker in Brooklyn, New York, and his musical aptitude was discovered early. His first job was as a boy alto at the Lower East Side Manhattan Synagogue. He sang often for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs and eventually became a cantor at the Brooklyn Jewish Center. He participated in the Metropolitan Opera auditions in 1941, but did not win. However, when Met general manager Edward Johnson heard him sing at the

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

   · 1977 · cited 63,309x

2. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

   · 2009 · cited 59,204x

3. Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

   · 2009 · cited 47,628x

4. ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

   · 2009 · cited 47,223x

5. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,514x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Richard

Family name

Tucker

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Brooklyn

Place of death

Kalamazoo

Occupation

actor

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Student of

Paul Shearer Althouse

Instrument

voice

Record label

Columbia Records

Image

Richard Tucker - collezione Tino Barindelli.tif

Voice type

tenor

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