alto

Of the four soloists, alto Beth Taylor and tenor Duke Kim were the most impressive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Rollins’ first instrument, at age 13, was the alto saxophone, followed by the tenor when he was in his mid-teens.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

Yvonne Lanauze’s vocal is modest, but the track blossoms in the instrumental solos—Hodges’s alto sax singing with quiet poise, and Tyree Glenn’s trombone talking with emotion and eloquence, raising the whole performance to another level.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

“Strasbourg 82” displays how he shaped a cohesive whole from the voices of musicians mostly decades his junior, and how he nurtured future stars including, here, Mr. Blanchard and alto saxophonist Donald Harrison.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025

Next to an alto she sang alto, by a soprano, soprano.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

She remembers opening the windows when the weather got warm, letting the sounds of altos and sopranos and tenors travel down the street.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2023

But for my fellow altos, the melodic range of female alto songs and male tenor songs very closely overlaps; for example, Rihanna and Queen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

"But if you notice, they are all from melodic lines and they move in intervals that can be taken by sopranos, altos, tenors and basses, and this is not possible to do like that."

From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2021

“And she was like, ‘Yeah, you’ve got to represent for all the altos and all the low female singers.’

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2020

I forfeit the solo to Anna Muller—whom Carissimi could never love—and am moved into the altos.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper