I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, 'Where have you been?' and I said right here for now on!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.
Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.
I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
God smiled on me in every sense. I was born a tenor, and you know what that means. Tenors are a rare commodity.
When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.
There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.
You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.
A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.