Word: tenoritis
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...looms. For his own works Lurcat has shunned the standard "library'' of 14,500 different tones of wool and adopted a more practical 13 colors; he has also restored the old 14th century weave of six threads per centimeter to produce a more vigorous texture than the tenor eleven-thread count of the more recent "corrupt" period...
...since he was nine, had been making good money working proms and club dates from his mid-teens. ("I never played for $5 a night in my life," says Hawkins with pride. "I was always a rich musician.") As the first jazzman of any real talent to play the tenor sax, Hawkins quickly built a reputation and an ardent following. He added to both in 1939 when he and his own nine-piece band cut Body And Soul, one of the most famous jazz disks ever recorded. Hawkins stayed as active in the bopping '40s as he had been...
When Stan Getz and his cool tenor made the scene in the late '40s, Hawkins was Out with the Ins. But that, too, passed. Hawkins is back In, so busy recording and hopping about the U.S. and Europe that he rarely has time to sit down to listen to his collection of classical records. The secret, he says, is to play the way you feel: "If I felt like climbing, I'd sound like I was climbing a mountain...
Wagnerians received their first big jolt at the end of Act I, when Isolde (Soprano Birgit Nilsson) and Tristan (Tenor Wolfgang Windgassen) embraced in full view of King Marke, who usually does not appear -or suspect the illicit love-until the end of Act II. The second act, like all the others, was provided with looming, symbolical sets, dominated by a huge shaft ("Of course, I meant it as a phallic symbol," snapped Wieland. "This is what the entire opera is all about, isn't it?"). The enthusiastic opening night crowd gave the reconstructed Tristan an unprecedented 30 curtain...
...From the tenor of the remarks, it was clear that the Republicans thought they had found a strong issue for 1962's fall campaign-and perhaps beyond...