Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dartboard must conclude that Wikler's water-based metaphors failed while Burton's visibility analogy succeeded. Burton's use of tenor and vehicle should be recognized and applauded by our community. However, it must be recognized that Wikler is a first-year, and with a little help from Expos, his use of contrived metaphors will doubtlessly improve...
Admittedly, it wasn't all the candidates' fault. The number of debaters limited the amount of time allowed for response to each question. The moderators also allowed for little discussion between the candidates. In particular, the various questions asked by Karen Brown of WNUR detracted significantly from the tenor of the debate and trivialized the issues facing the American people. When Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) suggested in his closing statement that the candidates try a Lincoln-Douglas style debate in January, it was the best idea of the evening...
Besides the quartet (pianist Alan Broadbent, drummer Larance Marable and tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts, along with Haden), there are guest vocalists on a few of the cuts (Shirley Horn and Bill Henderson) and a chamber orchestra on others. But it is Haden's spooky, unpolished vocal on Wayfaring Stranger, the closing track on this superb album, that provides a surprising but characteristically intrepid coda, a valedictory from a musical explorer who can find new territory anywhere he wanders...
...gilded breeches; the lovestruck and the lunatic both mingling with gods. Fate is lowered from a trap door to walk with hunchbacks and adulterers. The fornicators wear brocaded robes and the chaste are no less adorned. What matters is the glittering recitative--the strange power of the counter-tenor and his haunting arias. The characters and their conflicts are secondary amusements; harmless distractions as each singer is guided or goaded into glory by the basso continuo. What matters is the music...
...Brustein: My first job, aside from working for father in the shipping room of a wool yarn business, was playing clarinet and tenor sax with a swing band at a high school junior prom...