Word: tenore
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...Italian way, as TIME's Rome Bureau Chief James Bell explains, is based on unreconstructed individualism. Everyone fancies himself the tenor singing a solo at La Scala; nobody is willing to settle for serving as the relatively faceless member of a big choir. "There isn't a political leader in the country," one party boss candidly admits, "who will subordinate his party's desires to the good of the state." For that matter, there is probably not a political leader who would subordinate his own personal ambitions to the good of his party, either. The result: everybody...
...wedded to the classics through the progressive jazz of Brubeck, the Modern Jazz Quartet and others. It took on an increasingly formal, warmed-over character. At that moment, the need for the New Thing first stirred among future jazz movers like Alto Saxophonist Ornette Coleman, Pianist Cecil Taylor and Tenor Saxophonist John Coltrane...
...music to encompass the total black experience, says Tenor Saxophonist Archie Shepp: "The field holler, the ring shout,* the sanctified church. That doesn't exclude white people, but if white people are to be included, they must emerge with a kind of humility," For Trumpeter Don Cherry, the music speaks most eloquently for the whole musician. "Man is a species, all human," Cherry observes. "The rest is pastels. Beware of distractions...
...opera, the scene is improving slightly. Three decades ago, Soprano Dorothy Maynor could and did prepare opera after opera without ever being invited to sing. One of the century's finest contraltos, Marian Anderson, did not break into opera until 1955, when she was 52. Beyond Tenor George Shirley there are hardly any black male opera singers. But of the top eight American-born female operatic singers, four-Leontyne Price, Shirley Verrett, Martina Arroyo and Grace Bumbry-are black...
...fellow N.A.A.C.P. staffers, "is a concerted attempt by segregationists, black and white, North and South, with the blessing of the President, to turn back the clock and plant second-class citizenship firmly and forever on us." Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, the only black U.S. Senator, concluded sorrowfully: "The whole tenor of things seems to be further dividing the country instead of bringing us together...