Word: tenorizing
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...Beautiful Voice, Good Legs The 25-year career of Italian tenor Franco Corelli, who died in October, took him from La Scala in Milan to the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, where he performed on 368 occasions [MILESTONES, Nov. 10]. In an April 6, 1962, profile we traced his climb to opera's heights...
...Corelli, 37, has risen so rapidly that in Italy he is nicknamed 'the Sputnik Tenor.' One reason is that he has a classically handsome head set on a 6-ft. 2-in., 185-lb. frame (his other Italian nickname is 'Golden Calves'); another is that he can sing superbly ... Trained as a naval engineer, Corelli did not start studying singing until he was 24 and learned most of what he knows by listening to recordings of famous singers. His professional career was begun 'by pure good luck' when he got the chance to sing opposite Maria Callas in Spontini...
...tenor of the room suddenly changes and the last song begins to blare: “I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord. I’ve been waiting for this moment all my life, oh Lord. Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord...
DIED. BOBBY HATFIELD, 63, the tenor half of the "blue-eyed soul" duo the Righteous Brothers; of undetermined causes; in Kalamazoo, Mich., shortly before a scheduled performance at Western Michigan University. Born Robert Lee Hatfield, he (below, right) and Righteous Brothers partner Bill Medley, singing bass, helped transform white pop by bringing an emotional freedom to their music that was previously the province of African-American singers. The pair's breakout hit, You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin', topped the charts in 1965 and went on to become one of the most popular songs in radio history...
...President Joshua Suskewicz ’05 credited Summers’ September 2002 remarks with moderating the tenor of on-campus debate...