Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...primordial haze. Colored lights flash, and chain-mail costumes shine in the gloom. A guitar swoops through a sonic blizzard that might have been whipped up by Led Zeppelin. Whirling at the center of this musical maelstrom is a lanky, dark-haired lout. He shouts in a girlish tenor, drops his kimono, strips to hot pants and tosses roses to adoring teenyboppers...
...Alfredo, Tenor Stuart Burrows sang with taste and grace, but he lacks the sharp vocal and theatrical edge required by the role. Sills started off with a surprisingly wide vibrato that spoiled some of her high notes. But the problem cleared up, and the confrontation with Germont-splendidly sung by Baritone William Walker-was in ev ery way convincing. Looking slim and sexy, Sills throughout the evening exhibited an appealing range of emotions and musicality. From the glossy extravagances of the opening party scene to the despair of her pact with Germont, Sills once again asserted her claim...
...first paragraph--that Forman's film is sexist and crypto-fascist. Both are words meant to surprise and offend, particularly since they have been so over-used by the very people who might be expected to agree with the premises of this film. In the first place, the whole tenor and action of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is sexist. McMurphy sees his treatment in the asylum as emasculating and his favorite response to the greyhaired doctors is to startle them with crude '50s locker-room talk. The feminine principle represented by the nurses is that of order...
...question is not, as William Stringfellow is quoted as saying, whether the Church can change, but rather if it will conform to secular society. The faith and practice of the Church are radically opposed to the tenor of the world. This applies to sexuality, and while the world might change, the Church must stay faithful to its heritage. The issue is not simply the ordination of women, but the compromise of the church to the world. This is seen in the willingness of these women and their allies to take the Church into the civil courts. It is very strange...
Thomas Moore, tenor, accompanied by James Mann, pianist, perform songs of Beethoven, Faure and Strauss; arias of Handel, Verdi and Tchaikovsky. Kirkland...