Word: tenoritis
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...general session of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies (the eighth having remained in Europe for a year of study), we read with considerable surprise and consternation Mr. Amfitheatrof's article of November 21. In it he has included several misstatements of fact and has also misconstrued the tenor of the Seminar...
...four excellent soloists, tenor Oscar Henry'52 stood out. His magnificent voice is even stronger and truer than last year. The chorus, as always, was a marvel of precision and balance...
...Mind Music." Stravinsky used only five instruments-two flutes, an oboe, English horn and cello. A chorus of eight women and two soloists. Mezzo-Soprano Marni Nixon and Tenor Hughes Cuenod, were the only voices. Stravinsky conducted in his usual jerky, graceless style, looking, with his prominent eyes and waving tailcoat, rather like a dapper little Beatrix Potter frog...
...slow music, in close harmony and mildly dissonant, not a dirge of despair but rather "contemplative," as one listener put it. The soprano solo, The Maidens Came, was sparse, austere, reminded some in spirit of Italian primitive painting of an even earlier era than Stravinsky's models. The tenor solo, Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, was a singer's nightmare of half tones and difficult intervals. Most everybody was relieved when the duet, Westron Winde, came breezing in with a cheerfully dissonant allegro...
Stravinsky took three curtain calls. There were bravos for the tenor. A slight hissing was heard at the rear of the hall. Mostly, though, the audience didn't quite know what to think. "It is mind music," said one musician. An esthete put it precisely: "From the lush, full, rich sound we think of as Stravinsky, you are suddenly in an entirely different world-in a bony world...