Word: tenors
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...were concerned about the negative tenor of the press' coverage of Radcliffe's future and wanted to make sure Radcliffe's students' voices were heard and presences were felt," she added...
Three years ago, Michael Bolton had a fortunate epiphany. Sharing a stage with Luciano Pavarotti at an Italian benefit concert, Bolton heard the First Tenor sing Puccini's Nessun dorma. The experience left the pop balladeer "overwhelmed by the emotional depth of this great music." Now Bolton has recorded My Secret Passion: The Arias (Sony Classical), a collection of 10 popular arias and a duet from La Boheme on which he is joined by no less a luminary than soprano Renee Fleming...
...this some kind of joke? Not at all, according to Bolton. "These great arias, the ultimate means of expression for a tenor, have changed my perception of music, indeed my whole life, profoundly and permanently," he explains in his earnest liner notes. They've certainly changed the course of his career, at least temporarily. In recent months he has been singing Nessun dorma everywhere from The Nanny to Live with Regis & Kathie Lee. The album shot to the top of the Billboard classical chart on its release in January (it was still at No. 2 last week), an unprecedented achievement...
Thankfully, we have no equivalent evils today. As Andrew A. Green '98 wrote in a Feb. 3 op-ed, "The tenor of campus politics this fall revealed a pervasive ignorance and selfishness among undergraduates." Which worthy causes does Green lament have not been taken up? [W]e have no multicultural student center, junior faculty are almost never tenured, there is no ethnic studies department, the Core has not (really) been reformed and finals are still after Christmas." Each of these concerns is Harvard-centered, and with the exception of a multi-cultural student center and an ethnic studies department...
...college can be a time for honing basicskills through vocal, dramatic or dance work.Cohen spent two years as a tenor and a featuredsoloist in the all-male a cappella group, theHarvard Krokodiloes, and says the experience hashelped him prepare for re-entry into the theaterworld after commencement...