That night, when the tenors and sopranos came to eat, they cried and mourned the great loss.
Such was his success in the Spanish capital that he was quickly recognised as one of the greatest tenors his country had ever produced.
In 1781 he returned to England, and Dr Burney, who heard him sing in that year, has described him as the sweetest, albeit one of the most powerful, tenors of his generation.
The part of Lucifer is assigned to the barytone voice, the spirits of the air to the sopranos and altos, and the bells to the tenors and basses, the whole closing with the Gregorian Chant.
In the choral response ("The Apostles and the Martyrs wrapped in Mantles") the sopranos and altos are in unison, making with the first and second tenors a splendid effect.
The third number is the well-known chorus of Dervishes sung in unison by tenors and basses, thus forming a kind of choral chant.
Latin chant of the bells sung by tenors and basses, with a soft tremolo accompaniment:-- "Laudo Deum verum!
Without a break comes the response of the spirits, first and second sopranos, altos, and tenors ("Oh!
For a generation afterward all tenors were measured by Mario's standard.
He lacked only a little higher finish, a little more brilliancy of voice and impressiveness of manner to take a position among tenors of the very first rank.
Of alltenors who have visited us since 1873 the greatest, viewed from all points, was Campanini.
When in the face of such assertions the voices and the art of tenors like Bonci and Dalmores, and of barytones like Renaud and Ancona, were brought into notice their actual merit seemed doubled.
Campanini remained the tenor of tenors for New Yorkers for a decade longer.
At the head of the tenors was Signor Nicolini, the husband of Mme.
You'll give "May the stars" first to the sopranos, and then repeat with the tenors and basses?
The first four lines are sung naturally in unison; then there is a repeat, in which the tenors and basses are singing against the women's voices.
Thus it is that it happens that such a singer as Caruso, certainly one of the greatest tenors of all time, could be accidentally heard by a manager while singing and receive an offer for an engagement upon the spot.
There he was at once proclaimed the greatest of all tenors and from that time his success was undeviating.
It always appears quite easy for Nino, and he does not squeak like a dying pig as all the othertenors do on that note.
Then he made Nino sing again, a little love song of Tosti, who writes for the heart and sings so much better without a voice than all your stage tenors put together.
In fact, we have become so accustomed to strutting tenors and mincing sopranos that we accept what they have to offer as a matter of course.
The player in opera acts, not as men and women act, but as operatic tenors or sopranos or bassos have acted ever since opera came into being.
In the face of this universality of tenors in power, what a limited hole-and-corner thing the art of medicine seemed.
Tenors are hard enough to get, but to get a tenor with brains and a heart is about the rarest thing in the world.
He would be a head and shoulders taller than any of the pigmy tenors now on the boards.
We were fellow-students at the Scala, and now we're going to be rival tenors in your opera, 'The Maid of Athens.
Lavirotte was offered the leadership of the tenors in a chorus.
Upon the ancient chant the new harmonies blossomed like roses on an old gnarled stem, and when on the ninth bar of the "Kyrie" the tenors softly separated from the sustained chord of the other parts, the effect was as of magic.
It was Mr. Innes's belief that the supple, free melody of the Gregorian was lost in the shouting of operatic tenors and organ accompaniments.
And so, under his guidance, the Jesuits had increased their orchestra and employed the best tenors that could be hired.
The words they could not catch and only the voices could be heard--two tenors and a bass.
Somewhere behind the church the same three voices, twotenors and a bass, began singing again a mournful song.
The tenors invariably go with the bass; but, a rare occurrence, the violoncello is frequently distinct from the double-bass.
The two last conclude with a chorus for two tenors and a bass voice.
Certainly," said Gaetano, smiling; "and I know very few tenorsin San Carlo who sing that duo as I do.
The solos were sung by Mesdames Grimm and Couraud, and by Bassine and Chapuis, the latter being one of the best tenors in the city.
The "Kyrie" is specially impressive, the chant of the sopranos being answered by the tenors and basses in unison, and the whole closing with a dirge-like movement by the orchestra.
Also when the tenors were associated with the wind instruments to complete the harmony they were supported by the bassoons.
The few boys that they have are wretched, and the tenors and basses are like singers at a funeral.
His execution was unsurpassed and unsurpassable, of a kind which at the present day is well-nigh obsolete, and is associated in the public mind with sopranos and tenors only.
Joseph Victor Amedee Capoul, who made his debut in 1861, was for many years considered one of the best tenors on the French stage.
Some tenors have travelled with numerous retainers, who always occupied seats at the theatre for the purpose of directing the applause, but nothing of the kind has ever been heard of with a contralto or basso.
Fancelli and Masini weretenors of merit, with beautiful voices; also Brignoli, who for twenty years lived in America.
Before leaving the tenors a word should be said concerning Edward Lloyd, who in England seems to have inherited the mantle of Sims Reeves.
There are tenors coming to the surface continually.
The company at the Scala received an accession from the rival theatre, the great Pasta, and soon afterward Donzelli, who ranked among the foremost tenors of the age.
Duponchel, the director of the Opera, made him a tempting offer, for good tenorswere very difficult to secure then as in the later days of the stage.
In 1839 she was at Dresden with Herr Tichatschek, one of the first tenors of Germany, a handsome man, with a powerful, sweet, and extensive voice.
While singing at this capital she met Carl Devrient, one of the principal dramatic tenors of Germany, and, an attachment springing up between the pair, they were married.
There are not many violins by this great master, but oftenors and double basses more.
There are several magnificent tenors and violoncellos, and perhaps three or four double basses.
His Tenors are considered good, and Otto says his violins have an excellent quality of tone when unspoiled, but are not esteemed on account of their ungraceful appearance.
To our description of Gaspar's instruments we should add that his tenors and double basses are of a rather broader form than his violins.
Almost all men speak and sing in one register--tenors mostly in the second chest register, bassos mostly in the first, and oftentimes indeed not even in a correct natural manner.
Mazzoleni was one of the leadingtenors of that company.
The tenorswere Masini and a Russian named Petrovitch, with whom I sang the Ballo in Maschera.
When the breath of other tenors gave out, Masini only just began to draw on his.
Those tenors are a torture with which no gnats on earth can compare.
In moments of despair and suffering, when the gnats are stinging or the tenors sing, everything suddenly grows dim; you jump up and race round the whole house like a lunatic and shout, "I want blood!
Tenors to right of him, Tenors to left of him, Discords behind him, Bellowed and thundered.
Trebles to right of them, Tenors to left of them, Basses in front of them, Bellowed and thundered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tenors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
