Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ailing Leontyne Price to sing the demanding role of Leonora in the opening of Covent Garden's new production of II Trovatore. She passed with flying colors, though she was scored for occasionally giving too free a rein to her voice when spiraling into the upper registers. What thrilled the audiences was the raw power of her bright, heroic soprano, a tidal wave of a voice that all but drowned out Tenor Bruno Prevedi...
...Terrace. The ten sullen teenagers are overprivileged, amoral and aimless, and their upper-crust parents are too obtuse or indifferent to notice...
...jumped off to an early lead, scoring its only goal late in the first period. Junior center Pete Miller picked up the goal unassisted on a pretty backhand slap shot from the right-hand side of the rink. The puck slipped past the St. Nick's goalie into the upper left-hand corner...
Lower Owl, Upper Sparrow. Last week, in a new and stunning blonde wig, she was at her greatest in the pink and purple Flamingo Room at Las Vegas, appearing before a mass of abnormally hushed conventioneers, all of whom were in the palm of her hand. Ella is 46 now. Countless other singers have entered and left the scene during the span of Ella's career. A British magazine recently conducted a poll to determine the second best female singer; it was understood that the first was Ella. As a true jazz musician, she has never sung a song...
...moving at twice the speed of nine-to-five Man, tossing in casual doodies in the abstract expressionism of sound. When other singers' jugulars would be bulging, Ella isn't even panting. She seems to breathe through her ears. Her range goes from lower owl to upper sparrow. Her voice sounds all of 20 years old. Her manner, for all her speed, is soothing. Just when you think she might be turning into Bonnie Baker, however, she kicks the lid off and begins to scat: "Scoodee...