One of the hangers-on sang briefly in a startlingly pure, strong tenor.
He is joined this weekend by the strong tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander.
Jacques Judah Lyons had a strong tenor voice, one that people were glad to hear in song or speech.
"I'm a steamroller, baby," he sang in a strong tenor, "and I'm rolling all over you".
The strong tenor Nikolai Gassiyev is the oily Marquis, and the fine Canadian baritone John Fanning is appropriately cast as the rich Englishman, Mr. Astley.
Rossini's 1829 work, requiring herculean singers, a super-strong tenor and vast forces, is itself far from pretty, despite a happy ending.
Gone was his strong tenor, replaced by something raspy and ornery, the voice of old man who has something to say.
Wesker was devoted to his mother and had great sympathy for his father, a little Chaplin of a man with a strong tenor voice, who detested tailoring.
A mainstay of the group from its inception in 1949, Alberts and his strong tenor also graced such evergreens as "Stranger in Paradise", "Mister Sandman" and "A Woman in Love".
Mr. Schade imbued "Woe, How Angry Is the Maiden" with myriad shadings, his strong tenor meshing elegantly with Mr. Quasthoff's rich voice in a characterful rendition of "My Darling's Eyes Are Blue".
