Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School, New York Social Register}. Thus he has had no trouble nurturing the open, first-name style introduced by Gentele throughout the company-from the $4,000-a-performance stars down to the stagehands. "For the first time in years, people at the Met enjoy their work," says Tenor George Shirley. "Now you feel that your problems will be listened to and that changes will be made...
PART II OF The Oratorio contrasts vividly with the trumpets-and-drums splendor that precedes it. The scoring eliminates the festive instruments entirely and the accompaniments are lighter: a flute is used in two obbligato roles. The one aria had a trio-sonata texture with tenor soloist, flute, and continuo. This form was a special favorite of Bach's for which be wrote some of his best counterpoint. The simplicity and clarity of singer and flutist filled the entire church and maintained the spell throughout the aria...
Wagner, Tristan und Isolde (Tenor Jon Vickers, Soprano Helga Dernesch, Soprano Christa Ludwig, Baritone Walter Berry, Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan conducting; Angel, 5 LPs, $29.90). What a cast of performers! What a disappointment! Given Karajan's past flair for Wagner, not to mention stalwart Tenor Vickers as Tristan, this could well have been, the stereo statement of Wagner's endless paean to adultery. Instead, it is merely a smooth, workmanlike job, hampered by Dernesch's inability to make Isolde alive enough so that her death is significant. The record is also marred by the cavernous, "first...
...Glee Club has decided to end discrimination solely on the basis of sex. Starting next semester, women are welcome to audition along with the men. There is only one condition: since the club remains dedicated to music written for male voices, only women who can sing in the tenor or bass ranges will be accepted...
...order that I may display my lyrical quality...the second time so I can display my virtuosity." A busy quartet has the baritone declaiming, "This is the quartet"; the contralto rejoicing, "I have a nice theme"; the soprano warbling, "I just sing la, la, la, la" and the tenor fuming, "But the tenor hardly has a thing." Naturally, mass suicide concludes the work, as the characters gloomily intone, "This scene seems very long...