With its bassoons plangently outlining a minor chord in wide intervals and then creating a somber musical environment for the voice, this is one of the recording's great moments, and it gets from John Mark Ainsley, in the title role, the magnificent performance it deserves: pain delivered as beauty, with exquisite tone all through the difficult high-tenor register.
"This entire production has been a trying and difficult time," the tenor John Treleaven was quoted as saying by The Los Angeles Times on Friday.
Recently, in a selected population of patients with difficult-to-treat asthma (TENOR), Miller et al. compared asthma severity assessment according to three methodologies[24].
He sang the aria "Ah Mes Amiss" again, nailing the difficult note — a kind of tenor's macho proving ground — nine more times.
Odds are that none of those contenders will capture the tenor of these difficult times with more sensitivity or greater attention to beauty than Kelly Reichardt's "Old Joy," a triumph of modesty and of seriousness that also happens to be one of the finest American films of the year.
Tenors are a community like no other because it is the most difficult of all the voices to achieve and only a fellow tenor can fully understand the challenges.
As Carlo the tenor Ramón Vargas, a game presence in a difficult and often unrewarding role, started off sounding tight but warmed by the end of the evening.
Though the tenor Christian Franz brought stamina and fervor to the staggeringly difficult role of Tristan, his singing was patchy in sound and nearly devoid of legato.
It would be difficult for any President to set aside military analysis of this tenor; in any event, Obama has persisted with the Predator strikes at roughly the same rate as George W. Bush.
"Let me say bluntly that the tenor of negotiations in the formal U.N. track has been difficult," Mr. Stern told the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming.
