tenor
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“I was filled with question marks,” the tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins told the New Yorker in 1961.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 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
On top of that, Constanzo’s soaring yet sensitive countertenor makes Gandhi, originally a role for tenor, all the more compelling.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
There is a big moment coming in the next 24 hours: for Wes Streeting, deciding to go for it or not, and the tone and tenor of any launch that he is planning.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
He took to wearing a leather jacket and a porkpie hat like legendary tenor man Lester Young, joined a neighborhood R&B band, and Ma had increasing difficulty in getting him to go to school.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
Vocabulary lists containing tenor
Julius Caesar
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Excerpt from "The Philosophy of Literary Form" by Kenneth Burke
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Music - Introductory
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