Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faculty Chamber Concert Ray De-Voll, tenor, John Heiss, flute. Laurence Lesser, Cello, Victor Rosenbaum, piano Enc Rosenblith, Violin and Patncia Zander, piano; music of Haydn, Heiss Faure and Dvorak, Jordan Hall. 290 Huntington Avenue, Thursday...
...Johnnie Walker Scotch. Sándor Kopácsi, a former Budapest chief of police who now lives in Toronto, was frequently on the Soviet Ambassador's guest list and recalls how Andropov used to borrow the police force's gypsy band. With a clear tenor voice, Andropov would join in song fests. He was especially fond of a sentimental Hungarian ballad about a crane leaving its beloved mate to fly to foreign lands...
Still, the tenor of the commission's discussions indicates that the problem may at last be faced realistically. The reason is obvious: the day when Social Security is expected to run out of money is close enough to force painful choices. The trust fund on which Social Security pension checks are drawn had to borrow $600 million from the separate Medicare and disability funds to write the checks that went out Nov. 3. Robert A. Myers, executive director of the commission, estimates that the fund will have to borrow upwards of $11 billion more to get through the first...
...Bayreuth Festival, however, can see him as something other than a stalwart. In a brilliant bit of casting against type, the suave, silken Prey has been portraying the cantankerous Beckmesser in Wagner's Die Meistersinger. It may be the first time in history that Beckmesser out-sings his tenor rival in the prize-song contest. "In his letters, Wagner said that Beckmesser should not be too comic," says Prey. "So I said I will sing this music like Schubert's Winterreise. "And he does...
...blacks, homosexuals and, possibly, women. Raised to consciousness, these fears are exorcised. It is a quest for identity based on Joseph Conrad's admonition: "In the destructive element immerse. That is the way." The way to what? Quite probably, the way to understand and absorb the dark tenor and temper of the age, the kind of visceral awareness of anarchy that William Butler Yeats had in mind when he wrote, "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned." Mamet's problem in Edmond is that his intuitional reach exceeds his dramatic grasp...