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...jewels of the jazz industry. With tales from his boyhood spent in Philadelphia with John Coltrane and his successful years of touring with Dizzy Gillespie, Golson passed on stories and advice to the next generation of aspiring jazz artists.When jazz was still young, Golson was busy playing tenor saxophone whenever he could. “We were trying to figure out what this thing called ‘jazz’ was,” Golson said. “We didn’t know where we were going, but we wanted to get there as soon as possible...
These tactics of Clinton’s are not the tactics of well-intentioned democratic politics. They are the tactics of a campaign in the paroxysms of electoral death. And, as a consequence, the tenor of American political discourse ratchets one notch lower. It is unfortunate that any candidate who strays even the slightest bit from the accepted narrative of cultural pandering is immediately branded a cultural elitist. It is even more so that such a branding is coming from someone who’s supposed to be on the same side...
...house performances this year. Because each show is broadcast live, says Met general manager Peter Gelb, "it makes people feel like they're part of this global opera community." Perhaps that's why the audiences are spontaneously applauding arias and standing for their favorite singers during curtain calls. The tenor can't hear the ovation, but it's not really for him anyway. It's for the guy in the eighth row who's never been that close to Nessun dorma before and wants to savor the moment...
There was nothing sweet about Andrews' childhood. She was born in England in 1935 and grew up poor. When she was 4, her mother, a pianist, took up with a handsome vaudeville tenor who later became an alcoholic and at one point forced a creepy, toe-curling kiss on her. Meanwhile, Andrews' real father, a tender and saintly man, turned out not to be her "real" father at all: when she was 14, her mother bluntly informed her that she had been conceived in a one-time liaison with an acquaintance...
...closed, he taps his foot to the beat. A moment later, Eyal Dechter ’09 strums the first chord on his acoustic guitar, leading into an original melody. Loren J. Bienvenu ’08 joins in on drums, completing the trio. Dechter’s soft tenor breaks into a love song. The band crescendos as they near the chorus, at which point Dechter sings the lyric that gave the song its name, “You are my fetish”. These three musicians form the band “Fetish Fetish...