Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the Met revived Peter Grimes, and this time it was smooth sailing. Tenor Jon Vickers sang the title role with complete conviction; Director Tyrone Guthrie's staging was fittingly roughhewn and seafaring. But for most of the audience, the true center of interest was the Met debut of British Conductor Colin Davis. One of the world's top young maestros, Davis, along with the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Zubin Mehta and the Berlin Radio Orchestra's Lorin Maazel, is among the front-running candidates to succeed Leonard Bernstein when he steps down as musical...
Jazz ALFIE (Impulse). Tenor Saxophonist Sonny Rollins, best-known from his hard-bop days for a coarse tone and wild, harsh harmonies, has turned urbane and eloquent as composer of his first film score. This record is a series of new arrangements on the original sound track by Oliver Nelson, played by eleven good jazzmen, including Sonny. Alfie's Theme is a little long and ultimately empty, but then, that's Alfie...
...FLAT, G FLAT AND C (Impulse). The featured player is Yusef Lateef, who used to be plain William Evans, tenor saxophonist with Dizzy Gillespie. In the '50s, Evans changed his name, his faith (from Christian to Mohammedan), and the nature of his jazz, turning to such Middle Eastern instruments as the rebab and the arghool. Now he's headed farther east with The Chuen Blues, played on a three-stringed Chinese lute, and Kyoto Blues, on a Taiwan bamboo flute...
...member dies. Though the club is frequently accused of snobbism, past President Robert Snyder, a corporation lawyer, declares that "economic status is unknown and unimportant. I imagine that William Rockefeller [an attorney and great-grandnephew of John D.] is solvent, but all we talk about is whether the tenor is any good...
Frozen Blood. Sarah Caldwell began to think so too when, after she scheduled the opera for May, the tenor she had lined up to play Aron backed out. She put it back on the program again six weeks ago, and this time the baritone withdrew. Through it all, the 160-voice chorus kept practicing away, running up production costs that ultimately skyrocketed to $300,000, thus making it one of the most expensive operas ever produced. Finally, Tenor Richard Lewis and Baritone Donald Gramm stepped into the roles of the Biblical brothers, and the promised land was reached...