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Word: tenore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daniel Nieto, tenor, a tall, dark and handsome French kidnaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Days of Whine and Roses | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...born in Budapest. His father was a tenor in the Royal Hungarian Opera chorus, and his mother an amateur pianist. At three, Nyiregyházi could reproduce on a toy piano the melodies that his father sang. At four, he began piano lessons and composing. His first piece, he recalls, was "sort of Japanese-my father had been singing Madama Butterfly-and in the key of A-minor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nine Wives and 700 Works Later | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

After Lull and his co-producers spent about $10,000 making the tape, Dawkins, the producer of "Nightshift," decided the "tenor of the piece was not acceptable for general broadcasting...

Author: By Karyn E. Esielonis, | Title: Television Producer Cancels 'Lost Cookies' Tube Debut | 4/20/1978 | See Source »

Pavarotti sang impeccably and with authority, not an easy matter in a part that lies very high even for a tenor. But a week earlier he gave a recital at the Met, broadcast nationwide on PBS, which better presented both his musicianship and his personality. He is perhaps the best and certainly the most popular male singer now. His records dominate the classical charts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Luciano's Back in Town | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...Perhaps the most perfect, if not the most ambitious number was Tosti's limpid Ideale. In the heavenly cantoria, one could picture Beniamino Gigli and Tito Schipa nodding paternally, John McCormack consulting the universal genealogy to see if Pavarotti has any Irish blood. He has been compared with these tenors and many more, including Caruso. None is quite right. Pavarotti is himself: a great tenor whose technique is traditional, but whose direct, unsentimental, occasionally tough approach to music makes him very much a modern singer . -Martha Duffy

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Luciano's Back in Town | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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