Word: tenoritis
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...befits a man who has spent much of his professional life expiring at the top of his voice (he has logged 227 hours of dying time in Tristan alone), Siegfried-sized Tenor Lauritz Melchior knows his deathbed bathos down to the last Cheyne-Stokes wheeze. When bandits hopped the fence of his Beverly Hills estate last week, bound him with neckties and began looting the place, the 67-year-old Dane huffed and puffed like a heart-attack victim, sagged to his chair in feigned death throes (Tristan und Isolde, Act III) to frighten them off. Said...
Throughout, the deep, ringing speaking voice of Moses and the soaring tenor of Aaron were heard simultaneously. The orchestra played in a web of complicated polyphony, and the chorus sang in as many as twelve parts. Some found the rainbow shower of sound to their liking; others were puzzled and distracted, wondered whether the oratorio-like work was an opera at all. But Paris' Le Monde called it a miracle. The Neue Züricher Zeitung found the score "an ingenious summary of all that makes Schoenberg the founder of a new musical language." That language-like the words...
...kinds of instruments. Their voices may sound like a brass section, and often they have the sculptured phrasing of a big band. They hit the opening phrases of My Sugar is So Refined with the rubbery beat and buttery sound of a good sax section. Then First Tenor Clark Burroughs spreads his arms wide and throws his silver-hued voice weaving and wailing high over the others, eventually slides back down to join in a typically altered Hi-Lo ending: "My girl is granulated sugar cane...
...child burned in the very fire he had warned against. "Americans lack Britain's long colonial experience," said the imperialist Daily Express, with a nostalgic sigh. "To be misunderstood and misrepresented is often the price of leadership." The most pointed alarm, however, was one of a different tenor, sounded by London's Liberal News Chronicle: "Anything that encourages the U.S. to withdraw into 'Fortress America' is bad for the free world. The policy of backing the discredited Chiang may be stupid, but riots like this encourage isolationism, not realism, in the United States...
Music for Lighthousekeeping (Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars; Contemporary). Volume 8 in this West Coast series is marked by playing of piano-string tautness and vibrating energy. Bob Cooper is a glib, honey-mouthed talker on the tenor...