Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know that Verdi refunded most of the expenses of a man who had twice traveled to Parma from Reggio to see Aida, only to hate it both times, with the proviso that he never again attend a Verdi premiere? Or that Sir Thomas Beecham once advised a tenor to sing the last scene of La Boheme on the bed next to the dying Mimi? "In that position, my dear fellow," said the redoubtable baronet, "I have performed some of my greatest achievements." And who can top the advice Richard Tucker once gave Franco Corelli, when the golden-calved Italian tenor...
...board's recent actions seem to be symptomatic of the general tenor of its activities this past summer and fall. After slapping 10 students on the wrist for their participation in the sit-in at 17 Quincy Street last fall, the ad board undertook to prosecute students who signed a letter of solidarity with the 10 who were inside the building. It also placed a warning in a weekly law school publication threatening more severe discipline for future illegalities...
Though the role might have winded any singer, Luciano Pavarotti easily sustained the ringing high notes, the plaintive appoggiaturas, the hummingbird runs and trills. Not his own, but those of 150 hopeful young singers. Bespectacled and wrapped in a colorful shawl, the celebrated tenor spent the past two weeks judging the finals of the second Opera Company of Philadelphia/ Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition. "If you win this competition," said Pavarotti at the outset, "it promises you an opportunity. But more important, if you do not win, it doesn't mean you will not have a career." Still, the expansive...
Shultz called the White House to protest the tenor of some of Speakes' comments. Next day, the White House backtracked a bit by saying that while the Israeli raid may have been "understandable as an expression of self- defense," it could not be "condoned." President Reagan belatedly sent his "condolences" to Bourguiba. Other officials acknowledged that the U.S. had played an important part in persuading the Tunisian leader to give the P.L.O. a place of refuge after it was driven out of Beirut by the Israelis...
...relief efforts. During a four-hour, 15-minute visit to the capital, she spent 20 minutes with President de la Madrid at his official Los Pinos residence. Later Mrs. Reagan drove to the residential complex of Tlatelolco, where a 13- story apartment building had collapsed. She commiserated with Spanish Tenor Placido Domingo, who had come to Mexico City to discover the whereabouts of relatives believed to be buried in the ruins of the building...