Word: tenoritis
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Since 1985, when Leonard Bernstein's 1957 musical West Side Story was released with an operatic cast that included soprano Kiri Te Kanawa and tenor Jose Carreras -- and sold handsomely -- other shows have got the tony treatment on records: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel (1945) and South Pacific (1949), and Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady (1956). Now, most impressive of all, comes Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's 1927 musical adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel Show Boat...
...recordings have been as musically successful as Show Boat. In West Side Story, Carreras' Hispanic accent was as wrong for the role of the New Yorker Tony as Te Kanawa's British inflection was for the Latino Maria. In South Pacific, the casting of tenor Carreras, in the role created by bass Ezio Pinza, was a bit of commercialism that necessitated transposing the part and ended up distorting the balance. Further, imagining the New Zealand-born Te Kanawa as an all-American Nellie Forbush was a greater suspension of disbelief than many listeners were willing to make. Yet My Fair...
...tenor and substance of the GOP ticket's campaign advertising on television dominated the political dialogue yesterday...
When Eva makes contact with members of the underworld in the capital city she becomes a committed leftist, and the novel takes on, for the first time, a decidedly political tenor...
Gold medals on their necks, the weary champs strut into the night. Now they must "take Kathleen home again" at a string of receptions, where they will be expected to sing till dawn. But none of the four is unhappy at the thought. "Where else," asks tenor Tim McShane, a utility-company dispatcher, "can I hear such applause? Where can I be such a weekend star...