Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...example of most illustrated papers, and become sensational. We say this because of an article which appears on "Harvard Clubs," purporting to be a true exposition of the status of the clubs and societies of Harvard. The article, besides being calculated to create a false impression by its general tenor, is notably inaccurate in most of its particular assertions...
...voice, when he happens to hit them; but his old weakness for singing false has become chronic, and sometimes exhibits itself in a most exasperating manner: witness, the sextette in "Lucia," on Monday night. Mr. Joseph Maas is not a good actor as yet, but has a serviceable tenor voice, fresh, strong, and reasonably well cultivated. Mr. Clarke, the third tenor or falsetto or whatever he is to be called, acts poorly and walks in a waddle; his voice does not show traces of overwork. Mr. Carlton, the baritone, though now affected and awkward in his acting, gives promise...
...mostly made up of the old and almost wrinkled favorites which have done duty so often in Cambridge, "Ave Maria," "Comrades in Arms," etc., and two or three new songs were sung which are to be brought out at the next concert at Lyceum Hall. Mr. Szemelenyi's tenor solo "Spirito Gentil" was encored, and the performers are confident that the piano duet would have been also, if the piano had had a little more "grand" about it. The "college songs" (?) with which the concert concluded were better done than usual, and made the customary hit. Some merriment was excited...
...gems of the concert were the tenor and violoncello solos, both of which were admirably rendered...
THIS bill, whose defeat caused the Gladstone Ministry to resign, was to the following tenor: The old universities were to have their charters withdrawn, and from their endowments a new National University of Ireland was to be established, in which the only requirement for degrees should be the passing of the examinations...