Portrayed by Peter Tantsits, a suave, versatile tenor, McPhee is the central figure in Mr. Ziporyn's opera; much of the libretto, by Paul Schick, is based on McPhee's acclaimed 1946 memoir of the same title.
A short excerpt from the "Silent Steppe Cantata," which featured the versatile tenor Timur Bekbosunov and included Kazakh instruments mixed with Western ones, began with the lines "I was born with your sounds,/ with your sounds in my blood". Here folk music flowered into something slightly psychedelic.
Americans looking for a native answer to the imaginative and versatile German tenor Jonas Kaufmann, now in his glory, may well have believed they had found him here.
American opera singer who was acclaimed in the U.S. and Europe for his bold stage presence and superb acting ability as well as for his versatile lyric tenor voice that lent itself to both operatic and musical theatre interpretations.
(Chinen) TONY MALABY TRIO Tonight Mr. Malabyby, a versatile and increasingly prominent tenor saxophonist, convenes a promising exploratory trio with Marcus Rojas on tuba and John Hollenbeck on drums and percussion.
(Chinen) TONY MALABY TRIO (Tonight) Mr. Malaby, a versatile and increasingly prominent tenor saxophonist, enlists the bassist Drew Gress and the drummer Gerald Cleaver in a program of original music and choice standards, with an exploratory ethos prevailing.
(Chinen) TONY MALABY'S PALOMA RECIO (Tonight Mr. Malabyy, a versatile and increasingly prominent tenor saxophonist, leads a progressive ensemble with a Spanish tinge; his fellow travelers are Michael Rodriguez, trumpeter; Ben Monder, guitarist; Eivind Opsvik, bassist; and Gerald Cleaver, drummer.
(Chinen) TONY MALABY'S PALOMA RECIO (Tomorrow) Mr. Malaby, a versatile and increasingly prominent tenor saxophonist, leads a progressive ensemble with a Spanish tinge; his fellow travelers are Michael Rodriguez, trumpeter; Ben Monder, guitarist; Eivind Opsvik, bassist; and Rodney Green, drummer.
His voice was huge and versatile — it often reached into tenor territory — and it held up through more than two dozen albums and 57 years of performing.
His sidemen, most of them about as versatile as he is, are the tenor saxophonist Mark Shim, the alto saxophonist Godwin Louis, the pianist Leo Genovese, the bassist Edward Perez and the drummer E. J. Strickland.
One of the suitors, Seth Katz, was among the more entertainingly versatile performers: he switched between countertenor and tenor roles throughout the evening.
