Word: tenorizing
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...leave awful enough alone. They may be playing bad singers, but they're bound to make good music (composed and performed by the cast and collected on a terrific CD). Old folkies will spot the genres being guyed. Others will enjoy little frissons, like Guest's literally sheepish tenor (he baas his lyrics). The rest can just happily hum along...
...proposed that its core group of 60 singers be reduced by one-third. In response, the choristers pulled out of a scheduled performance of Berlioz's The Capture of Troy, and instead came to St. Paul's Church to perform Verdi's Requiem. Before the performance David Dyer, a tenor, told the packed church that the proposed changes amounted to "cultural vandalism." In the U.K., where public funding for the arts tends to be lower than in other large European nations, ENO faces an old and difficult challenge: marrying creative freedom with commercial viability. "It's the terrible tension between...
Anita Seth, a history Ph.D. student at Yale who chairs the organization spearheading the unionization drive, said the overall tenor of labor-management relations at Yale has contributed to the quicker evolution of its student organizing efforts...
Finally, Donegan opened the scoring on the 15th serve of the game. On the next point, Broadbent regained the serve and, in an attempt to change the tenor of the game, uncharacteristically chose to serve from the left side of the court...
...both. In one telling incident, he completed his sentence on the chain gang by writing a conciliatory letter to the sadistic white officer who ran the prison. Somehow, Rustin never succumbed to the anger that was his right; his spirit remained as light and as positive as his beautiful tenor voice. And all these years later, that's what endures: the memory of a man unbeaten by the hate around him, dreaming of a future in which the work of integration, black and white, gay and straight, is the moral--and joyful--duty...