Word: tenorizing
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...Godspell ensemble are almost uniformly impressive. Especially outstanding are David Alpert's moving rendition of "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord" and Kathy Evans' portrayal of an adulteress rescued by Jesus who expresses her gratitude in "By My Side." Stephen Hayes as Jesus has a melodic high tenor which makes up in sweetness what it lacks in strength, while Patty Woo sings the show's best-known number, "Day by Day," in a clear contralto...
Dave Liebman and his group Lookout Farm will be staying the week at the Jazz Workshop. When Liebman first started attracting attention with some fine tenor work on Elvin Jones's Live at the Lighthouse, Jones had the audacity to claim that Liebman would be the heir to Coltrane. He's not, but he's damn good, and if his group doesn't play with an overdose of electricity then this saxophonist/music teacher will present a fine weekend jazz alternative...
...Danish performers. They are under the Steeplechase label and seem to provide the logical link to the pre-electric era of the 1960s. Perhaps the finest of the series is the two-record collection The Meeting and The Source with Jackie McLean sitting in on alto with Dexter on tenor. Dexter's The Apartment has some excellent moments also. Dexter fled the U.S. because nobody appreciated his greatness. Fortunately, he's back to haunt...
...Money Tenor. The production is geared to the opera's sublime disregard for stagecraft. The sets, also by Ming Cho Lee, are elegant suggestions of an isolated royal redoubt. By contrast, Peter J. Hall's costumes are as palpable as the clothes people wear in Flemish domestic paintings. The two elements blend in Sandro Sequi's direction, which amounts to little more than staging subtly shifting tableaux...
...much more than a vehicle for a soprano. But the Met also offers a stirring male trio: Pavarotti, Milnes and James Morris, 29, whom the company has brought along carefully. Though Mimes' baritone is too dramatic for a legato line, his declamations are thrilling. Pavarotti, a money tenor in the way that Tom Seaver is a money pitcher, revels in his recklessly high flourishes. Sutherland fits into this bravura company, partly because she never tries to outshine her colleagues. A languid, settled presence onstage, she has been called in Italy, with affection and an edge of wit, La Serenissima...