He used that shout, at the top end of his tenor, for about half of his show at S.O.B.'s on Friday night.
The new album, produced by Greg Kurstin Lily Allenn, the Bird and the Bee) with Mr. Mercer, has some comfortingly familiar moments, like Mr. Mercer hitting the emphatic high end of his tenor in the first single, "Simple Song," and surf guitar breezes in "For a Fool".
Juan Diego Fl?, who sang a recital at Carnegie Hall on Saturday night, is an applicant for one end of the tenor repertory: the so-called bel canto style, with its emphasis on agility, clarity and an ear for songfulness tempered by good taste.
The Metropolitan Opera mourns the death of tenor Peter Hofmann.
The Metropolitan Opera mourns the untimely death of tenor Philip Langridge.
At the end of the 1970s the tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi joined, but he was not a success.
I was surely not the only one at the Royal Opera House who felt a kind of aesthetic panic when, toward the end of the evening, the tenor Jorma Silvasti came onstage as Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, singing about crematorium construction.
At the end of the cycle, the tenor declaims, on a rising major scale, the words "And death shall be no more"; then he bears down on the word "death" for nine long beats; and, finally, over a clanging dominant-tonic cadence, he thunders, "Thou shalt die".
"Toward the end of the opera Scalia/Ginsburg, tenor Scalia and soprano Ginsburg sing a duet: 'We are different, we are one,' different in our interpretation of written texts, one in our reverence for the Constitution and the institution we serve," she said.
"Muhal is the boss!," the saxophonist Joseph Jarman sang, over free-rhythm accompaniment, toward the end of his set with the tenor saxophonist John Tchicai.
Since the cold war ended, the tenor of the cat-and-mouse game, in which the submarines chased one another to test the other side's capabilities, has grown less aggressive.
