Word: tenoring
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...know that a tenor is a being apart, who holds the power of life and death over the works he sings, over the composers and consequently over poor devils of players . . . He is not a denizen of this world, he is a world in himself...
Perhaps. But as Composer Hector Berlioz himself acknowledged in another passage of his Evenings with the Orchestra, the all-powerful tenor is anything but a hardy breed. Tenor voices are comparatively rare: in one study, made in Germany, more than three-quarters of the male voices were naturally baritone or bass. And the tenor must sing much of the time toward the top of his range and volume, subjecting his vocal cords to cruel and unusual punishment. Small wonder that tenors are almost always in short supply and often have king-sized egos ("Good," "Marvelous," Caruso used to write below...
...execrable accompaniment by a small string ensemble. In their solo passages, the strings sounded uniformly out of tune, weak, uncertain, and uncoordinated Beneath the chorus, they could only muddle the texture a little, but almost did derange the pitch and rhythm of the three excellent soloists. Sure and accurate, Tenor David Griffith, Soprano Emily Romney and Bass Chi-Yuen Wang successfully staved off the strings, but were drowned by the chorus's volume. Except at a few points, it seemed that the chorus had been through the whole thing before and was tiredly stampeding home: Frederic H. Ford, conductor...
...ducts of the furnace-channel A to the hot-air duct, channel B to the cold-air return. Thus wherever the heat flows, music is wafted into every room as sepulchrally as the voice of Marley's ghost; the soprano trills from atop the cupboard, the tenor sings from under the bed. Price...
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Eileen Farrell, soprano; Carol Smith, contralto; Richard Lewis, tenor; Kim Borg, bass; the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Columbia...