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Like his tenor contemporary Enrico Caruso, Ruffo was said to embody a new style of singing in which power, declamatory force and a rich, chesty tone eclipsed the previous generation's emphasis on vocal grace, flexibility and technical finesse.
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Like and tenor
Like field, tenor comprises three component areas: the speaker / writer persona, social distance, and relative social status.
Like the drones, they are usually given the terms tenor, baritone, and bass, from smallest to largest.
Like many such songs, it began with the bass chanting nonsense syllables ( in this case the title ), followed by the tenor singing over repetitions of it.
Like the Soul Stirrers, the Travelers traded the lead between their two best singers, Kylo Turner, a baritone with the same facility as a note-bending falsetto as R. H. Harris of the Soul Stirrers, and Keith Barber, also nicknamed " Doc " or " Crip ", who changed from being a sweet-voiced tenor to a hard gospel shouter under Alexander's direction.
He also appeared in significant parts in films as Hardware ( 1990 ), Like Father, Like Santa ( as Santa Claus ), and Hear My Song ( 1991 ), where he was the Mr. X who was presumed to be the Irish tenor Josef Locke under a false name.
Like and contemporary
Like his friend and contemporary August Strindberg he had little patience with collective mediocrity.
Like his contemporary Descartes, Herbert searched for the foundations of
Like his contemporary, Francis of Assisi, Dominic saw the need for a new type of organization, and the quick growth of the Dominicans and Franciscans during their first century of existence confirms that the orders of mendicant friars met a need.
Like his contemporary, director John Ford, Capra defined and aggrandized the tropes of mythic America where individual courage invariably triumphs over collective evil.
Like its contemporary simpler cousin, the 80186, it could correctly execute most software written for the earlier Intel 8086 and 8088.
Like other contemporary French and Italian philosophers, Vattimo does not want, or only partially wants, to rely on Heidegger for understanding Nietzsche.
Like his contemporary, Elizabeth I of England, Rudolf dangled himself as a prize in a string of diplomatic negotiations for marriages, but never in fact married.
Like other contemporary arrangements, the agreement stressed the responsibility of the adopted rather than adopter, focusing on the fact that, under the contract, the adoptive father was meant to be cared for in his old age ; an idea that is similar to the conceptions of adoption under Roman law.
Like his contemporary, Henri Poincaré, Picard was much concerned with the training of mathematics, physics, and engineering students.
Like many other patronymics in other languages, with the formalization of naming conventions by laws in the late modern contemporary age many turned into surnames.
Like his contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright, Mackintosh's architectural designs often included extensive specifications for the detailing, decoration, and furnishing of his buildings.
Based on these two points, as well as a number of contemporary allusions, and the belief that the play is similar to Hamlet in vocabulary, and to Henry V and As You Like It in metre, scholars have suggested 1599 as a probable date.
Like Sofia, Shekinah has sometimes been personified and worshiped as a goddess of wisdom within contemporary pagan religions and New Age spirituality.
At the beginning of the 1990s, bands such as Born Against, Rorschach, Burn and Drive Like Jehu took the 1980s styles of hardcore and pushed them into more contemporary sounds.
Like the contemporary murals in the funerary art of the Egyptians, certain conventions were utilized that also assisted prediction.
* Lily Brett: Just Like That ( Holocaust survivors and their children in contemporary New York )
Like The Business, Dead Air is very topical, with much detailed background on technology and contemporary political issues.
Like much of modern and contemporary art, noise music takes characteristics of the perceived negative traits of noise mentioned below and uses them in aesthetic and imaginative ways.
Like almost any theist, I reject unguided evolution ; but the contemporary scientific theory of evolution just as such — apart from philosophical or theological add-ons — doesn't say that evolution is unguided.
Like his contemporary, the Finn Jean Sibelius, he studied Renaissance polyphony closely, which accounts for much of the melodic and harmonic " feel " of his music.
Like other styles of jazz, free jazz also adopted elements of contemporary rock, funk and pop music: Ornette Coleman was a leader in this vein, embracing electric music with his 1970s band Prime Time, and a number of other players including James Blood Ulmer, Sonny Sharrock, and Ronald Shannon Jackson forged styles combining elements of free jazz and fusion.
Like Henry Ford — a contemporary of Sloan with a rather special relationship to him as the other " head man " of an automotive colossus — Sloan is remembered today with a complex mixture of admiration for his accomplishments, appreciation for his philanthropic legacy and unease or reproach about his attitudes during the interwar period and World War II.
Like his contemporary King Louis XIV of France, Moulay Ismail began construction of an elaborate imperial palace and other monuments.
( Like many of his contemporary New Orleans bassists, Braud doubled on tuba, and he recorded on that instrument on some sides with Ellington.
Like its predecessor, the film combined high-quality contemporary animation and classical music ; however, it was not a financial success at the U. S. box office.
Like and Enrico
Like the Italian Stirnerites ( who influenced us through our late friend Enrico Arrigoni ) we support all anti-authoritarian currents, despite their apparent contradictions.
Like his friend and colleague Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Bianchi studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa under Enrico Betti, a leading differential geometer who is today best remembered for his seminal contributions to topology, and Ulisse Dini, a leading expert on function theory.
Like his brother Enrico, Giovanni Berlinguer was a major figure in the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ) and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1972, 1976 and 1979 and to the Senate in 1983 and 1987.
Like the Italian Stirnerites ( who influenced us through our late friend Enrico Arrigoni ) we support all anti-authoritarian currents, despite their apparent contradictions.
American anarchist writer Hakim Bey in 1991 talked about Arrigoni in this way: " Like the Italian Stirnerites ( who influenced us through our late friend Enrico Arrigoni ) we support all anti-authoritarian currents, despite their apparent contradictions.
Like and was
Like Napoleon, he was the worst of losers.
Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.
Like all Russians he was an emotional man, and in him the emotions warred.
Like the bell at Mass, the doorbell was pitched too high.
Like a particle drawn to a magnet he returned to that which was pressing so hard in his mind.
Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.
Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.
Like a wise gardener, Hardy pruned away the Shakespearian sonnets and songs, and the elements of meter and poetic diction to which his personal style was not suited, and let the main stock of his talent flourish.
Like many regular army officers from the South he was opposed to secession, but resigned his commission soon after he heard of the secession of his adopted state Texas.
Like Achilles in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron.
Like Emerson, Alcott was always optimistic, idealistic, and individualistic in thinking.
Like the historical Absalom, Absalom Kumalo was at odds with his father, the two fighting a moral and ethical battle of sorts over the course of some of the novel's most important events.
Like his father, Alboin was raised a pagan, although Audoin had at one point attempted to gain Byzantine support against his neighbours by professing himself a Catholic.
Like other children of the rich Meccan merchant families, Abu Bakr was literate and developed a fondness for poetry.
Like many ancient historians, Ammianus had a strong political and religious agenda to pursue, however, and he contrasted Constantius II with Julian to the former's constant disadvantage ; like all ancient writers he was skilled in rhetoric, and this shows in his work.
" Like his brother Baldwin III, he was more of an academic than a warrior, who studied law and languages in his leisure time: " He was well skilled in the customary law by which the kingdom was governed – in fact, he was second to no one in this respect.
Like his mother, neither he nor Christine sought a divorce for the next thirty years and it was only in 1997 that they formally divorced ; Ayckbourn married Heather Stoney.
Like the BBC Micro, the Electron was constrained by limited memory resources.
Like the previous, this Aeolus was said to have had had twelve children-six sons and six daughters.
In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.
Like all early Germanic rulers, he was heavily involved in ecclesiastical disputes ; in 895, at the Diet of Tribur, he presided over a dispute between the Episcopal sees of Bremen, Hamburg and Cologne over jurisdictional authority, which saw Bremen and Hamburg remain a combined see, independent of the see of Cologne.
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