Word: tenore
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Just threw down the disgusting, biased and contrary-to-fact telegram by H. Keith Thompson protesting TIME'S reference to Herr Hess, Doenitz, Raeder, Speer, Funk and Von Schirach as the "Seven Blackest Nazis." Congratulations, TIME, on keeping the record straight. For one, I urgently protest the tenor of Thompson's protest. As a matter of fact, I protest having to protest the protest...
...Krutch considers Gray's letters "deservedly among the most famous which have come down to us"; but this is strictly a scholar's opinion. On the few occasions when Gray kicked up his heels his letters brightened, but for the most part they reflect exactly the noiseless tenor of his studious...
...boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r"; "The paths of glory lead but to the grave"; "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen"; "Some mute inglorious Milton"; "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife"; "The noiseless tenor of their...
Rossini: William Tell (with Giuseppe Taddei, baritone, Mario Filippeschi, tenor, Rosanna Carteri, soprano; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana of Turin, Mario Rossi conducting; Cetra-Soria, 8 sides). A rousing version of a masterpiece too seldom performed (its last performance at the Metropolitan Opera was in 1931, and no tenors have looked strong enough to warrant its production there since). Filippeschi blasts out his killing high notes with plenty of steam. Recording : on the shrill side...
...nights later, at a second performance, Tenor Baum redeemed himself magnificently. Extra police were in the balcony to keep Florentines from violence if he fluffed again. The big test was the fourth act, where the tenor has an aria lasting ten minutes and running the entire tenor scale. As Baum began to climb to the high notes, the usually noisy galleryites were quiet as mice. When he got to the stratospheric climax and crashed out the finish, the audience applauded its hands raw, cheered itself hoarse. Tenor Baum grinned like a schoolboy...