Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fifties saloon music, with an added thank you to the big band era. Every aspect of the music combines for this effect, the guitar chording under the first chorus for added mellowness, the horns playing in their lower registers for a bigger sound, the classic fifties eight bar tenor sax solo, and the piano and sax phrases mixed in between the choruses. Van sings this in concert and follows it with a version of "Misty," sung in the same style, that is positively earth shaking...
Divorced. Grace Bumbry, 35, well-turned mezzo-soprano who progressed from Arthur Godfrey's radio show Talent Scouts to New York's Metropolitan Opera; and Erwin Andreas Jaeckel, 38, German tenor; after nine years of marriage, no children; in Berlin...
...from Die Fledermaus), the extracts on this disk are all unadulterated-and sung with the special fervor displayed by opera singers when their peers and rivals are in the wings. Soprano Leontyne Price brings a chaste passion to Dove Sono from The Marriage of Figaro. Soprano Montserrat Caballe and Tenor Placido Domingo, turning to Manon Lescaut, ask each other Tu, tu amore? Tu?, and answer in the way every Puccini fan dreams of hearing but rarely does. Awesome is the word for Birgit Nilsson's portrayal of Salome's final 14 minutes on earth...
...several albums two of Peter's songs appeared which showed his ability to craft honest, direct, yet thoughtfully poetic pieces: "The Great Mandella" and "Day is Done." Bassman Bob Coucher and guitarist Ralph Towner helped him perform his music with extraordinary richness, enhancing Peter's naturally powerful and sensitive tenor...
...with a noticeable tendency to whine out the first notes, belying their true ability. When they sing into the upper range, they produce a sound absolutely unearthly--a sound no female voice could match. Dissonances in the soprano register are far more jarring than the same notes in the tenor or bass, and this effect was used advantageously in the Weelkes...