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Performance of the Week FRANCE After five consecutive wins in the Tour de France, American LANCE ARMSTRONG faced daunting challenges this year, including the tenacity of Italy's Ivan Basso. But on the race's Alpine stretch, Armstrong claimed the lead; widened it as the race wound back toward Paris; and seemed headed for an unprecedented sixth straight victory in the Tour de France, leaving everyone to marvel at his latest tour de force...
There are some tickling riffs. The lead single “Hey Now” opens with a single guitar tracing reverberating curlicues around singer Hugo Ferreira’s self-important basso declarations of incomprehension of a friend’s anti-social behavior. Tantric specialize in classic rock vocal harmonies, which they execute with aplomb, if not personality, and After We Go delivers these in spades. Tantric try for ominous, but end up sounding only sulky...
...Sydney and it's fabulous," reports Calnin, now with De Waart at the Hong Kong Philharmonic. "So you get a more complete string picture in which the top voice is still perfectly clear, enriched by what's underneath. It's a brilliant idea." A blast of basso profundo - that's the only extra weight the maestro wants to carry in Sydney. Now to turn dream into thrilling reality...
...famous singers. His professional career was begun 'by pure good luck' when he got the chance to sing opposite Maria Callas in Spontini's La Vestale on a La Scala opening night. For a while Corelli's extracurricular antics?he punched a spectator he thought had insulted him, stabbed basso Boris Christoff with a stage sword?drew attention away from his sizable gifts as a singer ... In Italy bobby-soxers periodically mob him at the stage door, and there is every evidence that he may do for tenors what Ezio Pinza did for bassos. Says he: 'I attract mostly young...
...would grin warmly as he heaped beef or chicken onto a ready plate. Dartboard has only the best things to say about the quality of his aunt’s Thanksgiving meal, but could any holiday compare to that Wednesday in mid-October when the Carver’s basso-profundo voice intoned, “Allllll that good turkey” as he piled the poultry high...