DAVID DANIELS Countertenor THIS season I'm most interested in hearing the tenor Ian Bostridge in Janacek's "Diary of One Who Vanished" at John Jay College in May.
For more than a year Cath Gamester has been hearing a tenor constantly singing the same five songs – "Silent Night", "Abide with Me", "You'll Never Walk Alone", "Happy Birthday "and "Land of Hope and Glory".
There's nothing more boring to me than hearing a tenor player who can play the s**t out of "Giant Steps," but sound like Coltrane.
"My mind is leaky after hearing seven tenors," Ms. Collins said.
The other night on the radio, we heard a tenor singing exquisitly of love.
When was the last time anybody heard a tenor, baritone or bath sing, a long, tight, accurate trill?
Those in attendance will also hear the tenor Plácido Domingo (before the Mass for 46,000 at Nationals Park on Thursday morning) or Harry Connick Jr. and Kelly Clarkson (at Yankee Stadium).
But in Mr. Bush he hears the tenor of the Republican Party he knew growing up in New England and living in New York.
Yet the picture of ticket buyers spending into four figures to hear a tenor voice well past its prime singing a ubiquitous opera (Puccini's "Tosca") in a bloated and often seen production points to people less interested in opera and singing than in celebrity and occasion.
(Hear, hear). The general tenor of the manifesto is decidedly in support of the creative individual.
