Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performer who talks like that survive for even a minute in today's pop-music miasma of drugs, decadence and dowdy religiosity? If he is Singer-Composer John Denver, 29, the answer is yes. The possessor of long blond hair and a mellifluous, if reedy, tenor voice, the wearer of gold-rimmed glasses and neatly pressed shirts, Denver is the Tom Sawyer of rock-and he has acquired a vast following of Becky Thatchers and Aunt Pollys as well as a few Huck Finns...
...clear high notes and revealed the saddening fact that Dizzy Gillespie at age 56 is slowly losing his chops. This did not keep Dizzy from playing five tremendous measures at the end of "A Night in Tunisia," although Dizzy, in deference, let Faddis blow the famous highnote ending. Tenor saxophonist Stan Getz and drummer Blakely also were particularly strong...
...opera was written for Tenor Peter Pears, Britten's lifelong companion musically as well as personally. It is the latest in an imperiled series of major artistic collaborations. Britten, 59, recovering from open-heart surgery, was unable to attend rehearsals or take his customary place at the podium for the opera's premiere a fortnight ago. Steuart Bedford, an Aldeburgh regular, conducted in Britten's stead...
...remarkable feat of endurance. In white suit and panama, he unifies the performance completely, whether in recitatives of improvised rhythm chanted to the plink of a single piano or sitting silently in a canvas chair as an observer. Gone are the Pears-shaped tones of the young lyric tenor. In their place now emerge dramatic powers of characterization. As a noted German author captivated by a winsome Polish boy in Venice, Pears' body seems literally to disintegrate with frustration...
...Paul Griffin's piano tickles with the right hand, fills chords and notes with the left. And the Dixie Hummingbirds are something else. Their oooh's are acapella oriented, rough and husky. The song finishes strongly, showcases them simultaneously, and the highpoint is a single oooh, taken from high tenor to falsetto, laid over the basic choral pattern...