Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fuller's resounding tenor voice, and the startling facility with which he simultaneously seems cheerfully villainous and cheerfully solid--the salt of the earth, with which even the least courageous of British imperialists could hope to manage to rule the waves--make him an ideal antihero: he'd stand out even more if the rest of the cast, right down to the chorus, weren't so fine. Joshua J. Zimmerberg wheezes through his old retainer's role in high style. Kerry McCarthy is as good, as Rose Maybud, the soprano. And Douglas H. Hunt, as Fuller's foster-brother, trying...
...KENNEDY LIBRARY got its starry-eyed start 12 years ago when President Kennedy was still in office. Since the 1965 invitation by City Council to build the library in Cambridge, many changes in the tenor of urban life have altered the city's priorities. These have been years of race problems, rent control, increased welfare demands, town-gown antagonism, urgent need for low-and medium-income housing, crime, dwindling tax rolls, congestion and pollution...
...four soloists sing numerous arias and ariosos which reflect upon the drama. These singers were the source of whatever weakness existed in the performance. The accurate but weak soprano of Susan Larson failed to fill the hall. Alto Pamela Gore often shrouded pitch and rhythm with an excessive vibrato. Tenor Ivan Oak had inexcusable difficulty in following the conductor which, together with an inability to pronounce the German text, resulted in a disappointing performance. David Evitts, however, displaying a full-toned but agile bass, gave the sensation of an effortless flow of notes...
...article "Invoking the Gods" [March 18] was certainly interesting and, to a classicist struggling to bring about a regeneration of interest in classical literature and culture, might at first appear to be a sign of unimagined success. But alas, from the tenor of your report it would appear that Theologian Miller has little understanding of the nature of the Greek gods. Ancient Greek culture was awash in divine identifications that had to do with what, to us, are secular realities, for example Euripides' beautiful line, "Recognizing one's friends is also a god." The Greek mind saw divinity...
Last October, emerging from an eight-year, self-imposed exile-she had got into some bad singing habits and the voice was threadbare-Callas embarked on a nine-month international concert tour, given with her old friend, Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano...