Word: tenore
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Lenny Baker, the personable rotundity who plays sax and sings tenor for Sha Na Na has been greasing up for pay for almost four years. Yet other than the little dab of Brylcreme before each show, he hasn't had to alter his character to fill his role as the jolly good humor man of the group...
More remarkable for its content and execution was the brief bass recitative, sung by Charles Hefling. Hefling sings with a baritone's lightness and ease. He gave intelligent emphasis to the text; were his range a tenor's, he would make an admirable Evangelist for the Passion settings. Ronald Coons, singing the tenor recitative, fared badly in comparison where his vibrato obscured his diction. He was much better, joined by alto Paula Shepard, in the duet which was the climax of the piece...
...shame that Carl Schlaikjer did not receive credit in the program listings for his oboe d'amore playing. It was a display of virtuoso caliber remarkable for its sensitivity of phrase and quality of tone. The instrument's sound filled the church in beautiful counterpoint to the alto-tenor duet...
DUNSTER HOUSE LIBRARY. David Lawrence, tenor; and Liz Hershey, lute. Sixteenth-century songs. Free. Saturday, October...
...performer who talks like that survive for even a minute in today's pop-music miasma of drugs, decadence and dowdy religiosity? If he is Singer-Composer John Denver, 29, the answer is yes. The possessor of long blond hair and a mellifluous, if reedy, tenor voice, the wearer of gold-rimmed glasses and neatly pressed shirts, Denver is the Tom Sawyer of rock-and he has acquired a vast following of Becky Thatchers and Aunt Pollys as well as a few Huck Finns...