When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.

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He had a good tenor voice (as did John Joyce), and he loved to sing and to dance.

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Other major works for solo horn include the two concertos for horn and orchestra by Richard Strauss (the first from 1883, the second from 1942), and Benjamin Britten's Serenade for tenor (voice), horn, and strings (1943).

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And so the range for the tenor is enormously high in a falsetto voice.

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As their brother Lazarus, tenor Russell Thomas sang with a remarkably good crisp voice.

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Anne Midgette, the New York Times critic who co-authored a tell-all book about Pavarotti with his former manager, says that at the tenor's peak, the brilliance of his voice was incomparable.

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Like singer Robin Thicke, Hawthorne alternates between a rich, throaty tenor and a fragile falsetto, but Hawthorne's voice has more frayed edges than that of his counterpart.

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Mr. Day-Lewis, who normally speaks in a rich baritone, chose a tenor range and reedy timbre that's closer to what's known of Lincoln's voice from historical sources.

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