Sentence examples for has a tenor from inspiring English sources

Ne-Yo has a tenor as sleek as a harbor seal, and a fondness for harmonic twists that reframe his melodies as he's singing them.

Mr. Lloyd, as a tenor saxophone improviser, has grace in his long, patient strokes, his lines festooned with arpeggios; he has a tenor saxophone tone that's thin, light, gorgeous and rare.

Like "Dutchman" it has a tenor named Eric, but the young woman Minna (no relation to Wagner's then wife) is initially in love with Magnus (a sailor not a hunter), whose father served as pilot for the condemned captain, known as Troïl, and, following a dispute, was thrown overboard by the latter, but not before inflicting on Troïl's hand a wound that will not heal (shades of "Parsifal").

The problem with his performances as a baritone, however, is that his voice still has a tenor's colorings and character.

McGregor has a tenor singing voice.

Mr. Nolan is softly debonair and he has a tender tenor that nicely encircles Ms. McGinnis's voice in their duets.

Most companies, and audiences, are grateful to have a tenor who can at least get through it.

"If you have a tenor who is a stick and you want a tenor who moves like a dancer, you're just going to be unhappy.

Or the time the soprano in "Salome" finished the Dance of the Seven Veils, only to have a tenor who had a role in that scene whisper, "Can she sing 'Melancholy Baby'?" Mr. Levine said that it was true that, back in the 1970s or '80s, he had said Mr. Anthony still sounded too young to sing the emperor's part.

He has a plaintive tenor, a little thin, which adds to its authenticity.

As Edoardo, Ivan Magrì, who has a pleasant tenor voice, unfairly incurred the hostility of the gallery.