Word: tenoritis
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Still, the tenor of the commission's discussions indicates that the problem may at last be faced realistically. The reason is obvious: the day when Social Security is expected to run out of money is close enough to force painful choices. The trust fund on which Social Security pension checks are drawn had to borrow $600 million from the separate Medicare and disability funds to write the checks that went out Nov. 3. Robert A. Myers, executive director of the commission, estimates that the fund will have to borrow upwards of $11 billion more to get through the first...
...Bayreuth Festival, however, can see him as something other than a stalwart. In a brilliant bit of casting against type, the suave, silken Prey has been portraying the cantankerous Beckmesser in Wagner's Die Meistersinger. It may be the first time in history that Beckmesser out-sings his tenor rival in the prize-song contest. "In his letters, Wagner said that Beckmesser should not be too comic," says Prey. "So I said I will sing this music like Schubert's Winterreise. "And he does...
...blacks, homosexuals and, possibly, women. Raised to consciousness, these fears are exorcised. It is a quest for identity based on Joseph Conrad's admonition: "In the destructive element immerse. That is the way." The way to what? Quite probably, the way to understand and absorb the dark tenor and temper of the age, the kind of visceral awareness of anarchy that William Butler Yeats had in mind when he wrote, "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned." Mamet's problem in Edmond is that his intuitional reach exceeds his dramatic grasp...
...Vienna, almost everyone who counted in music and the government had shown up for American Conductor Lorin Maazel's long-awaited first performance after taking over as director. Then, 35 minutes into Tannhauser, the lead tenor, East Germany's Reiner Goldberg, dropped his harp and mumbled, "My voice-I can't go on." He then disappeared into the wings, leaving a stunned Venus alone in her grotto...
DIED. Mario del Monaco, 67, celebrated, booming-voiced tenor who was most renowned for his rendition of Verdi's Otello, which he played in 427 performances; of a heart attack; in Mestre, Italy. Blessed with a magnificent though sometimes unsubtle voice, the virtuoso proclaimed, "When I sang, people would not say they were going to hear Otello or Tosca, but Del Monaco." He was buried in his Otello costume while the funeral hymns were sung by his own recorded voice...