Word: tenoritis
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...different rates. In the capital city of Ulaan Baatar it is even possible to surf the internet and talk on cell phones. Wads of Korean investment and Japanese aid have seen to that. Though the aging buses, crumbling buildings, potholed streets and vintage power plants set the real tenor of the city...
...Eaton's cymbals join in. After the four-bar intro (which he first used in his own composition "End of the Road," recorded November 14, 1956), Jerry Lee makes the vocal invocation: "Come on over, baby, whole lotta shakin' goin' on!" It's a firm but liquid tenor, at times quavering with the infusion of the Spirit (perhaps holy, perhaps profane) that Jerry Lee heard and sang in the Assembly of God meetings of his youth. Which is of course at the sundered heart of his music: a wrasslin' match between the Deity and the Devil. Jerry Lee, whose cousin...
...There is also Astaire the singer; that takes some getting used to. His voice was thin, reedy, not quite suited for the high notes or large gestures of the standard tenor. But that was his genius: even before Bing Crosby, Astaire democratized singing. "Almost every great male icon of the art - Crosby, Sinatra, Torm?, Bennett - takes from Astaire," writes Steve Schwartz on Classical Net. "The male pop singer B.F. (before Fred) sounded something like an Irish tenor. ... The limitations of Astaire's voice forced him to find another way - deceptively casual, never oversold, and at home with the American vernacular...
...Despite herself, she smiles at his line - "The clouds broke/ They broke and/ Oh, what a break for me!" - and the corniness of his stage-tenor rendition; he's given a vocal swoop to it and, on "Me," touched his heart. Will this rain never stop? She apprehensively glances outside; no change in the weather. He finishes the chorus with "Long as I can be with you/ It's a lovely day." She's still not won over...
...argument intensified, Mayor Michael A. Sullivan said the tenor of the meeting was the result of “frustration and venting and anger and mistrust” at the city’s two major institutions of higher education...