Word: tenoring
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...freedom is short-lived, and after a few years, our sense of fun may begin to take on a different tenor. But for now, briefcases and business cards and early bedtimes have their place-in the future...
...Ring productions, concept is everything these days, at least until a new generation of heroic singers -- Flagstads or Melchiors -- comes along. Vocally, this cycle offers only two major performances. Tenor Siegfried Jerusalem, in the title role in Siegfried, may lack the ideal resonance at the top, but his voice is fresh and warm, and he cuts a handsome, lithe figure as the hero. As Waltraute in Gotterdammerung, Waltraud Meier got the week's biggest ovation for a blazing performance...
...ROSSINI TENOR (Arabesque). Up bel canto hill and down rodomontade dale, con brio, with the rising young opera star Rockwell Blake...
...foray into Berlioz marks a bold step for Norrington, who began his musical career as a tenor, founded the amateur Heinrich Schutz Choir in 1962 and was music director of the Kent Opera for more than 15 years. But it was not until he conceived his "Experiences" three years ago (first Haydn, then Beethoven) that the Oxford-born, Cambridge-educated musician achieved his current eminence. Norrington's contribution to the original-instruments movement is to push its boundaries forward from the Baroque and Classical periods into the mid-19th century. "Modern orchestras sometimes don't play Beethoven very well...
...Dukakis after Iowa, New Hampshire fits Robert Frost's definition of home as "the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." The mood and tenor of his campaign changed as soon as he arrived, particularly in the Manchester neighborhood where his Greek-immigrant father Panos first settled in 1912. Dukakis appeared able to relax now that he no longer had to purport to be fascinated with Iowa farm problems or subdue his natural 78- r.p.m. speech rhythms. While he did not fully abandon his innate caution, he did seem more adept at sniping...