Joseph Calleja's voice reminds many of the golden-age tenors of the past. Opera fanatics often trot out the tired old complaint about how "they don't make 'em like they used to" while pining for the ...
Glover fought to build a life in music. From Portland, Ore., to New York City, her story traces resilience, creativity and ...
Von Freeman was revered as a tenor saxophonist but was never a major star, worshiped by critics but perpetually strapped for cash. He seemed to purposely avoid commercial success. When trumpeter Miles ...
NEW YORK (AP) — When tenor Xabier Anduaga first auditioned for Riccardo Frizza, the conductor recalls that “he opened his mouth, and after two notes I understood I was in front of something special.
Throughout practically the entire history of singing, tenors have been the butt of jokes and innuendoes, most of them related to the alleged mental deficiencies of the breed. An Italian adage lists ...
“Don’t you 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 ...
In this dreary COVID-19 winter, there are some high points — and high notes — available to people cooped up at home. The documentary “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” which premiered on ...