Word: tenorizing
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...cohorts live up to the demands of the musical, but without any great distinction. Lester James finds the higher parts of the tenor lead somewhat too demanding and resorts to bleating on occasion. As Manon, Constance Lambert does well enough with a nebulous part. Lights, costumes, choreography, and the chorus each show professional handling. The musical director Robert Mandell deserves particular praise for the lush sound he gets out of his orchestra. At North Shore, the orchestra is located in a box-like enclosure that funnels out into the theatre, and this fact may account for the volume and fullness...
...unusual type voice required. Rosalinda must have a dark and strong lower range, complemented by a brilliant top and a sure coloratura technique. Miss Smith displayed both, ending her Czardas with a brilliant high B. Mr. Crain has obviously had experience in his part--he uses his strong tenor voice to advantage in the ensembles, and his ebullient comedy leaves little to be desired...
...eager mood to get up to Cape Cod, which he had not visited since Thanksgiving. He packed up Jackie, Caroline and John Jr. and flew off for Squaw Island off Hyannisport, where the summer White House will be set up in a seven-bedroom house owned by Tenor Morton Downey...
Technique & Feeling. Stravinsky's new cantata. A Sermon, A Narrative and A Prayer, was a far more impressive achieve ment. Only 15 minutes long, it was scored for alto, tenor, speaker, chorus and full orchestra. Yet it had so lean a texture that virtually every detail was visible - as if a chamber group were playing. The piece was remarkable not only for its intensity and melodic freedom but for the intricacy and beauty of the vocal writing, particularly in the moving duet of alto and tenor in the Prayer, and in the Narrative about the stoning of St. Stephen...
Susan Dowling, in both the Garden of Eden ballet and the apache number, gives the Winthrop audience a display of some of the finest dancing ever seen on a House stage. Terrence Currier is convincing as Judge Aristide Forestier, and he possesses a fine tenor voice...