Word: tenoritis
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...after intermission with the performance of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, his adaptation of Hans Bethge's collection of translated poems The Chinese Flute. At this point, Ozawa was not only conducting the BSO, but also two singers, Ben Heppner and Thomas Quastoff, who rounded out the tenor and bass-baritone voice parts. The work was divided into five parts that explored a different facet of Mahler's self-contemplation. In the first piece, known as the "drinking song," a man laments that "Dark is life, dark is death" and copes by losing himself in drink. The second...
Their strength lies in generating sounds that are New Age and hip while at the same time slightly Stan Getz-y, especially in the playing of the tenor saxophone. This is apparent in the most beautiful piece on their album, "Sunset Bay." The softest and most tranquil by far, "Sunset Bay" takes you to the Bay Area where the artists grew up. Ultra simple drum programming with understated saxophone notes will make you think you are walking down the Embarcadero with your special someone. The same can be said about "Eventide;" yet this time, the brothers add flute and something...
...true thing about those Braxton Brothers: their use of the tenor saxophone is powerful in its delicateness. Less is more when this instrument is involved, and this philosophy works wonders with their compositions. Now, what does not work wonders is their use of vocals in addition to saxophone in the other compositions of the collection. To hear the beautiful Braxton saxophone suddenly interrupted by vocalists that are trying too hard not to sound like vocalists damages the overall dreamy mood of the album. It's indeed only a minor tragedy though, as vocal intrusion occurs in less than half...
Keeping on the subject of "larger than life" singers, Hoelterhoff manages to continually weave in the story of everyone's favorite tenor, Lucianno Pavarotti. Told with a tinge of sympathy and pity, she traces the last moments of a tenor past his prime, who has constant memory lapses and has to transpose all of his arias down to avoid the dreaded high Cs, yet desperately does not want to leave the public spotlight. Like Bartoli, even Mr. P (as Hoelteroff affectionately calls the Italian tenor) is overshadowed by the more provocative characters surrounding him. Herbert Breslin, Pavarotti's "motor-mouthed...
...this election year, voter turnout is expected to be low in reaction to President Clinton's problems, the increasingly negative tenor of the campaigns and the strong economy. We hope that Massachusetts, never a state to follow the national trend, will be different. When citizens go to the polls next Tuesday, we urge them to cast their vote for L. Scott Harshbarger '64 for governor of the Commonwealth...