Word: tenore
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...same year as the Waverly, has a distinctly different tone. Berlioz wrote it for the Prix de Rome, the most prestigious composers' competition in Paris, but the judges deemed it too daring. This work tells the tale of Orpheus' death in three movements. The first is a sorrowful tenor melody in which Orpheus laments for his lost Eurydice. The second depicts the wrath of Bacchus' priestesses, who tear Orpheus to pieces when he rejects their love. Both a tenor and a women's choir are required for this movement, but this seems almost a mistake on Berlioz's part...
After intermission, the final work, Te Deum, brought the audience to its feet with thunderous applause. This piece utilized a tenor, a full choir and a children's chorus. Its seven movements are taken from a liturgical text; Berlioz composed this piece soon after his father's death, which may have influenced his subject choice. After the grand introduction, Berlioz moves into some of the most beautiful melodies of his whole repertoire. Daring and original, this work demonstrates his mature style, his full mastery of blending orchestral and choral sounds...
That three minute, 60-yard sequence--the blown fourth down conversion, the facemask call, the reverse and the score--combined to put Harvard in position to win its second straight Game with only part of the second quarter gone. The tenor seemed to be set for Harvard's Game triumph...
...controlled the half's tenor. He helped Harvard expire more than seven minutes off the clock (when a team has a 21 point lead, it wants to keep the clock ticking) in the fourth quarter...
Coming out of halftime, the Crimson seemed transformed. Sophomore standout Armando Petruccelli, laid up for the past two weeks by injury, entered at midfield and lost little time changing the tenor of the affair...