Word: tenore
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...want people to say, 'What does this guy know? He's been singing.' " Getting a master's is probably a prudent first step on a very extravagant course, but anyone who has listened to Blades sing his songs in his streetwise tenor would have no doubt that he knows plenty already...
...savor it anew. Renaissance vendettas can seem remote, "operatic," unreal, but transplanted to Mulberry Street in the 1950s, they take on a grimy, visceral immediacy. In the major roles, John Rawnsley as Rigoletto displays a rich, focused baritone, and Valerie Masterson as Gilda has a clear, secure high soprano. Tenor Arthur Davies' voice is a little light for the Duke, but he manages to make the character at once attractive and morally repugnant. As the trampy siren...
...Physics in 1962, and retired in 1977. Kamin and Markham finished the terms of their unrenewable contracts with Harvard and left. It was Pusey's public statements and handling of these three cases, far more judicious and civil than the actions of many other universities, that set the tenor of Harvard's reputation in the period...
...characters' lives, the playwright turns everyone from Virginia Woolf to Carrington's sailor-lover into throwaway lines. As a theatrical contrivance this works amusingly. But it is one thing to simplify, for dramatic convenience, the structure of historical lives and quite another to oversimplify their emotional tenor. In Talmage's hands, the brilliant Strachey becomes a fussy queen; the dangerously unstable Carrington, a ditsy pre-hippy. Like Noël Coward, Talmage seems to think the ideal relationship between a man and a woman is that of innocently playful and bantering siblings to whom heterosexuality...
...instrumental virtuoso on the order of the Earl, "Fatha" Hines. Rather, the Count's talent lay in his knack for organizing the tightest, swingingest bands in the land; populating them with some of the best sidemen ever to grace a dance floor or a recording studio, including Tenor Sax Player Lester Young, Trumpeter Buck Clayton, Drummer Jo Jones and Blues Singer Jimmy Rushing; and later backing the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra. Although his elliptically eloquent, spare style of playing, influenced by Fats Waller, gave his band its characteristic texture, Basie slyly soft-pedaled his technique...