Sentence examples for pure tenor from inspiring English sources

Garfunkel, famed for his pure tenor voice was diagnosed with vocal cord paresis, a weakness of the vocal folds in 2010.

Just as "the soft wet substance" in "Clay" carries with it a poetic charge, suggesting death and decay without naming them, so, too, in "The Dead", the mention of the singer Parkinson, the pure tenor whom aunt Kate heard when he was in his prime, but who is forgotten now, carries echoes of what is to come in the story.

His pure choirboy tenor and open face suggest infinite malleability.

One of the hangers-on sang briefly in a startlingly pure, strong tenor.

Mr. Harris had a pure, high tenor voice that he used for syncopated moans and slurs and leaps into falsetto.

Mr. Healy's voice is a pure, gentle tenor with reserves of power, like a lighter Bono, and he sustains notes and slides between them like the Smiths' perpetually wounded Morrissey.

The female singers are very good — the soprano Camilla Tilling ethereal and the mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozena impassioned — but the men are tremendous, including the pure-toned tenor Topi Lehtipuu.

Johnny Maestro, the pure-toned tenor who as the lead singer for the Crests, the Del-Satins and the Brooklyn Bridge recorded rock 'n' roll hits like "Sixteen Candles" and "The Worst That Could Happen," died Wednesday at his home in Cape Coral, Fla.

Yet it's hard not to feel a jolt of pure inspiration when the tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton slides his way into the proceedings with a perfectly phrased obbligato or a melody-rich solo.

Klaus Florian Vogt sang the title role, his pure-toned, pale-bright tenor a welcome contrast to the pitched shouting one too often hears in Wagner.

His voice is pure gold, and few tenors show s much total emotional control as he does.