{"id":459,"date":"2017-05-08T16:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T22:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=459"},"modified":"2017-05-07T16:24:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T22:24:17","slug":"music-csphil-the-texas-tenors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/08\/music-csphil-the-texas-tenors\/","title":{"rendered":"MUSIC: CSPhil &#8211; The Texas Tenors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/csphilharmonic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Texas-web.jpg\" alt=\"The Texas Tenors\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Texas Tenors<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nConductor:\u00a0Thomas Wilson<br \/>\nDate: May 06, 2017<\/p>\n<p>In another night of not precisely knowing what to expect from the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, I was pleasantly surprised. Before seeing them perform\u00a0this weekend, I had never heard of the Texas Tenors before. Part of me was apprehensive\u00a0for the performance, as I figured it would be a lot of well-sung country and western songs. Part of it was, but that was OK because the country just happened to be Italy. I think the more accurate assessment of this group is three tenors from Texas, since the primary focus is really on their singing, not necessarily on their southern origins.<\/p>\n<p>Their repertoire is quite admirable. From <em>Amazing Grace<\/em> to Sinatra to <em>The Phantom of the Opera<\/em> to Bruno Mars, this trio of singers aren&#8217;t just great at singing; they&#8217;re also excellent at engaging with the audience. Of course, that makes sense considering they&#8217;ve had many live performances, not the least of which was a stint in Las Vegas. In fact, these little bits were probably the most entertaining things I&#8217;ve seen at the Philharmonic this year.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the orchestra&#8217;s performance, it was almost unnoticeable since it blended so well with the singers&#8217; voices. I did find the intro piece of the theme to <em>The Magnificent Seven<\/em> (1960) to be a little misleading\u00a0since there were only <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">three<\/span> tenors, but I get the sentiment of the &#8220;old west&#8221; they were trying to drum up before the performers hit the stage. It was interesting to hear them perform &#8220;Somewhere&#8221; from <em>West Side Story<\/em> (1961), almost as a preface to next season&#8217;s performance when the Philharmonic will play along with the entirety of that movie, providing the music as the action unfolds on screen. At any rate, I was pleasantly surprised with the Texas Tenors, and I&#8217;m certainly glad I attended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Tenors Conductor:\u00a0Thomas Wilson Date: May 06, 2017 In another night of not precisely knowing what to expect from the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, I was pleasantly surprised. Before seeing them perform\u00a0this weekend, I had never heard of the Texas Tenors before. Part of me was apprehensive\u00a0for the performance, as I figured it would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,161,162],"tags":[585,148,163,149,584],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-music","category-philharmonic-music","tag-americas-got-talent","tag-colorado-springs-philharmonic","tag-music","tag-philharmonic","tag-the-texas-tenors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}