Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five years has become one of the world's leading string quartets--playing a program of Beethoven, Puccini, Stravinsky, and Debussy. Later concerts in this six-part series will feature performances by the New York Vocal Arts Ensemble, pianists Michael Borskin, Noel Lee, and Andrew Rangell, and the tenor Rolf Bjorling...
...titular heroine, sexy Soprano Anja Silja was in rare form, her powerful, dramatic voice fully under control. Tenor William Lewis, the narcissistic lover Sergei, was preening and selfabsorbed, his voice strong and true. Most impressive of all was Conductor Calvin Simmons, 31, who threw himself into the music with the single-minded intensity it requires, fanning the opera's central fires to white-hot incandescence...
...that-for everyone's good -the relationship between the two superpowers must improve. Says William Hyland, a former Kissinger staffer who is now a Soviet expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: "The real results of the meetings may take time to develop. They could set the tenor of superpower dealings for some time." -By Henry Muller. Reported by Robert Suro and Strobe Talbott/Washington...
...order to understand the tenor of McCabe's response, you've got to understand what most people consider the importance of Briggs Cage to the future of basketball at Harvard...
Wagner: Parsifal (Tenor Peter Hofmann, Bass-Baritone José van Dam, Mezzo Dunja Vejzovic, Bass-Baritone Siegmund Nimsgern, Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic and Deutsche Oper Berlin Chorus; Deutsche Grammophon, five records). Wagner's last and most difficult music drama has not had a really satisfying recording-until now. Hofmann makes Parsifal both strong and guileless, the splendid Van Dam is an anguished Amfortas, and Nimsgern is an evil, but not inhuman Klingsor. Only Vejzovic, a screechy Kundry, is weak. The real stars are Karajan and his Berliners, who capture the score's glowing spirituality...