Word: tenoritis
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...have been ready for Saturday Night Live, much less prime time, but the University of Michigan students screamed with laughter all the same. As the last class of the semester was ending, the 43- year-old geneticist slipped an acoustic guitar from its battered case and in a reedy tenor began warbling lyrics of his own invention to the tune of one of Frank Sinatra's enduring hits. "So start today," Collins crooned into a microphone. "Love DNA, and do it ouuuuurrr way." The star of this spoof stood 6 ft. 4 in. tall. He wore cowboy boots beneath...
...Administration also lays claim to the managed-competition banner -- which makes for a conundrum. How do you silence someone who is presumably a star tenor in your own choir? The trick, apparently, is to publicly praise the renegade for his perfect pitch -- then start a whisper campaign that he sings off-key. Last Wednesday, White House health guru Ira Magaziner praised Cooper's plan repeatedly during a speech before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The next day, Clinton told TIME that his Administration's much-ballyhooed dispute with Cooper "has been thrown out of proportion. I think there...
...passions in these psalms are familiar: anguish, anomie fueling rage, solitude seeking fusion, a gonadal pulse that just won't quit. Ah yes, the soul of rock in its giddy, roiling infancy. The singing voice is familiar too. That pure tenor -- its piercing power and excellent elocution suggesting a glee-club star who's just been kneed by the school football coach -- could belong only to Marvin Lee Aday, known to the world as Meat Loaf. First as Eddie the zombie biker in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), then as star of writer-arranger Jim Steinman's ambitious album...
...Ideas come fast to Joshua Redman. On The Deserving Many, a song from the young tenor saxophonist's fine new album, Wish, he starts off with a few buoyant, tinkling notes, then suddenly scatters them into a jagged, descending riff, surging along it at breakneck speed. Then, quickly interweaving a flurry of growling notes with an exciting upper-octave peal, he is swept up by a new set of ideas that carry him back to his original melody...
Pianist/composer Fox is well-regarded as a leader in the contemporary fusion of jazz and classical music. Murray is one of the the foremost tenor saxophonist of his generation, notable for his mastery of the avant-garde "free jazz." An eager crowd gathered in Holmes Hall Living Room on this cloudy afternoon, many present for the chance to enjoy these musicians for free, others, including several Harvard student musicians, anxiously awaiting the opportunity to make and learn music in the company of these masters...