In order to enter at a talent competition at University High School, Berry and Torrence helped form a doo-wop group known as " The Barons " ( named after their high school's Hi-Y club, where they were members ), which comprised fellow University High students William " Chuck " Steele ( lead singer ), Arnold P. " Arnie " Ginsburg ( born November 19, 1939 ) ( 1st tenor ), Wallace S. " Wally " Yagi ( born 20 July 1940 ) ( 2nd tenor ), John ' Sagi " Seligman ( 2nd tenor ), with Berry singing bass, and Torrence providing falsetto.

* April 29 – Donald Mills, lead tenor of The Mills Brothers ( d. 1999 )

Announcing that the two pieces would be separated by an " interlude " played by tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves, Ellington proceeded to lead the band through the two pieces, with Gonsalves ' 28-chorus marathon solo whipping the crowd into a frenzy, leading the Maestro to play way beyond the curfew time despite urgent pleas from Festive organizer George Wein to bring the program to an end.

A standard stack has a baritone voice at the bottom, the lead in the middle ( singing the main melody ) and a tenor at the top ; although stacks can be altered, especially where a female voice is included.

Alison Krauss and Union Station provide a good example of a different harmony stack with a baritone and tenor with a high lead, an octave above the standard melody line, sung by the female vocalist.

Mandolin player Pee Wee Lambert sang the high baritone above Ralph Stanley's tenor, both parts above Carter's lead vocal.

The use of a high lead with the tenor and baritone below it was most famously employed by the Osborne Brothers who first employed it during their time with MGM records in the latter half of the 1950s.

There are four parts in Barbershop harmony: bass, baritone, lead, and tenor ( lowest to highest ), with " tenor " referring to the highest part.

The tenor generally sings in falsetto voice, corresponding roughly to the countertenor in classical music, and harmonizes above the lead, who sings the melody.

The " lead " in barbershop music is equivalent to the normal tenor range.

Baritone is the fifth of the scale that has the lead as a tonic, and may be sung below the lead, or even above the lead ( and the tenor ), in which case it is called " high baritone.

All of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas have at least one lead lyric tenor character ; other notable roles are:

Baritone is the fifth of the scale that has the lead as a tonic, and may be sung below the lead, or even above the lead ( and the tenor ), in which case it is called " high baritone ".

Although there are a few occasions in which members of one orchestra join the other, the full forces do not join together until the latter part of the last movement, when the tenor and baritone sing the final line of Owen's poem " Strange Meeting " (" Let us sleep now …") as " In Paradisum deducant " (" Into Paradise lead them ...") is sung first by the boys ' choir, then by the full choir ( in 8-part canon ), and finally by the soprano.

Kevin Taylor, Marcoux Corner's lead tenor, took a notorious second place in a texting competition in Minot, North Dakota in 2007.

In 1950, Cooke replaced gospel tenor R. H. Harris as lead singer of the gospel group The Soul Stirrers.

* J. W. Lance – lead vocals, previously tenor vocals ( 2001 – present )

That production was also the La Scala debut of tenor Franco Corelli.

He soon established himself as one of a quartet of Italian tenor superstars who reached the peak of their fame in the 1950s and ' 60s, the others being Giuseppe Di Stefano, Carlo Bergonzi and Franco Corelli.

Franco Corelli ( 8 April 1921 – 29 October 2003 ) was a famous Italian tenor who had a major international opera career between 1951 and 1976.

Among the best-known people who have attended the University of Pisa are Italian Presidents Giovanni Gronchi and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi ; Haitian President René Préval ; Nicaraguan President Adan Cardenas ; Pope Clement XII ; Italian Prime Ministers Sidney Sonnino, Giuliano Amato and Massimo D ' Alema ; Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi ; Italian political leaders Carlo Sforza, Paolo Emilio Taviani, Alessandro Natta, Enrico Letta, Marcello Pera, Fabio Mussi and Sandro Bondi ; Italian Constitutional Court Judge Sabino Cassese ; Roman Catholic Cardinals Pietro Accolti, Benedetto Accolti the Younger, Francesco Barberini, Francesco Martelli and Bandino Panciatici ; Roman Catholic Archbishop Giovanni Battista Rinuccini ; Nobel Laureate in Literature Giosuè Carducci ; Nobel Laureates in Physics Enrico Fermi and Carlo Rubbia ; anatomist Atto Tigri ; art historian and curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev ; author Antonio Tabucchi ; civil engineer Henry Willey Reveley ; computer scientist Roberto Di Cosmo ; diplomats Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo and Marcello Spatafora ; director and screenwriter Mario Monicelli ; economist Luigi Bodio ; egyptologist Ippolito Rosellini ; electron microscopist Clara Franzini-Armstrong ; geneticist Guido Pontecorvo ; historians Camillo Porzio and Carlo Ginzburg ; intellectual Adriano Sofri ; international civil servant Francesco Cappè ; journalists Lando Ferretti and Tiziano Terzani ; jurists Piero Calamandrei, Francesco Carrara and Antonio Cassese ; linguists Stefano Arduini and Luigi Rizzi ; manager Pier Francesco Guarguaglini ; mathematicians Bonaventura Cavalieri, Giovanni Ceva, Enrico Betti, Guido Fubini, Vito Volterra and Luigi Fantappiè ; neuroscientist Emilio Bizzi ; philosophers Giovanni Gentile and Anna Camaiti Hostert ; physicians Francesco Redi, Vincenzo Chiarugi and François Carlo Antommarchi ; physicists Adolfo Bartoli, Luigi Puccianti, Antonio Pacinotti, Temistocle Calzecchi-Onesti, Franco Rasetti and Luca Gammaitoni ; playwright and librettist Giacinto Andrea Cicognini ; racing car and engine designer Carlo Chiti ; surgeon Andrea Vaccá Berlinghieri ; tenor Andrea Bocelli ; writer Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi.

** Verdi: Messa da Requiem, Zubin Mehta conducting, Gwyneth Jones, soprano ; Grace Bumbry, mezzo-soprano ; Franco Corelli, tenor ; Ezio Flagello, baritone ( Myto Records )

Music theorists who wrote about the conductus include Franco of Cologne, who advocated having a beautiful melody in the tenor, Johannes de Garlandia, and Anonymous IV.

* Franco Corelli ( 1921-2003 ), opera tenor

Regrettably, a complete video performance of the tenor's searing portrayal of Canio in the Zeffirelli production of Pagliacci, which was to be paired with Cavalleria rusticana featuring Tucker's friend and tenor colleague Franco Corelli as Turiddu, was never telecast and has not been issued commercially, for legal reasons.

* Franco Corelli ( 1921 – 2003 ), Italian tenor

* 30-Franco Corelli, 81, operatic tenor.

With a rich and ringing spinto tenor voice and movie-star good looks, Corelli won a wide public following from early on his career.

Many of the most challenging tenor roles in the repertory were written during the bel canto era, such as Donizetti's sequence of 9 Cs above middle C during La fille du régiment.

The tenor arias from La bohème remain recording favorites.

* La nuit de mai – poème symphonique for tenor and orchestra after Alfred de Musset, Paris 1886 ( also performed and recorded in 1990 and – with Plácido Domingo – in 2010 )

First performed at La Scala in Milan, the opera starred Aureliano Pertile as Sly ( tenor ) and Mercedes Llopart as Dolly ( soprano ).

For the première, La Fenice had cast Felice Varesi as Rigoletto, the young tenor Raffaele Mirate as the Duke, and Teresa Brambilla as Gilda ( although Verdi would have preferred Teresa De Giuli Borsi ).

* Robert Rounseville ( 1914 – 1974 ), operatic tenor, who appeared in the films The Tales of Hoffmann and Carousel, and onstage in the original productions of the musicals Candide and Man of La Mancha

People so honored at the park include merengue singer Joseíto Mateo, salsa singer La India, Cuban musician Israel " Cachao " Lopez, Cuban tenor Beny Moré, Tito Puente, Spanish language television news anchor Rafael Pineda, salsa pioneer Johnny Pacheco, singer / bandleader Gilberto Santa Rosa and music promoter Ralph Mercado.

Gunsbourg remained for sixty years overseeing such premiere productions as Berlioz's La damnation de Faust in 1893 and the first appearances in January 1894 of the heroic Italian tenor, Francesco Tamagno in Verdi's Otello, the title role of which he had created for the opera's premiere in Italy.

* La mort du nombre (" The death of numbers "), soprano, tenor, violin and piano ( 1930 )

The duet from La Muette, Amour sacré de la patrie ( meaning " Sacred Love of the Homeland "), was welcomed as a new Marseillaise ; its performance at Brussels on 25 August 1830, in which Adolphe Nourrit sang the leading tenor role, engendered a riot that became the signal for the Belgian Revolution that drove out the Dutch.

Performers of classical music of note include Catherine Hayes, ( 1818 – 1861 ) Ireland's first great international prima donna and the first Irish woman to perform at La Scala in Milan ; tenor John McCormack ( 1884 – 1945 ), the most celebrated tenor of his day ; opera singer Margaret Burke-Sheridan ( 1889 – 1958 ); tenor Josef Locke ( 1917 – 1999 ) achieved global success and was the subject of the 1991 film Hear My Song ; the concert flautist Sir James Galway and pianist Barry Douglas.

His other published complete opera recordings included La traviata with Rosanna Carteri, Cesare Valletti, and conductor Pierre Monteux, Pagliacci with Victoria de los Ángeles, Jussi Björling and Robert Merrill ; Tosca, Aida, and Il trovatore, each with Zinka Milanov and Jussi Björling ; a second recording of Il trovatore with his friend and final tenor co-star, Richard Tucker, featuring a young Leontyne Price in her Met debut role of Leonora ; and Verdi's Macbeth, with Leonie Rysanek and Carlo Bergonzi.

In 1961 she performed Amina again at Venice's La Fenice with tenor Alfredo Kraus with whom she shared the same teacher, Mercedes Llopart, and a long professional association.

In addition to four arias and ariosos for the principal tenor ( Un di all ' azzuro spazio ; Io non amato ancor ; Si, fui soldato ; and, Come un bel di di maggio ), the opera contains a well-known aria ( La mamma morta ) for the soprano heroine, which was featured in the film Philadelphia ( the Maria Callas version is used on the soundtrack ).

Gunsbourg remained for sixty years, overseeing such premiere productions as Hector Berlioz's La damnation de Faust in 1893, and the first appearances in January 1894 of the heroic Italian tenor, Francesco Tamagno in Verdi's Otello, whose title role he had created for the opera's premiere in Italy.

In 1906 she debuted at Milan's La Scala, where she met tenor Giovanni Zenatello.

One such tour, in 1967, consisted of two performances of Madama Butterfly, one of La Traviata, and two of Ginastera's Don Rodrigo, each with Plácido Domingo singing the main tenor role.

Kubota has a tenor and falsetto vocal range and is known for his signature songs " Dance If You Want It ", " Missing ", " Love Rain ( Rain of Love )", " You Were Mine ", " Give You My Love ", and " La La La Love Song ", which was the theme song of the television drama Long Vacation.

* La Tour ( tenor ) ( or Latour ), haute-contre ( no Christian name known )