theatre
The TEN Tenors
Bring Their AusTrAliAn ChArm To sAn Diego by bill biss
(l to r) Dion Molinas, Tod Strike, Benjamin Clark, Jeff Teale, Graham Foote, Steven Sowden, Dominic Smith,
The Ten Tenors’ road to worldwide success started from the ground up. There selections from their most recent release Nostalgica, songs from Here’s To The
was no magic music man who financed them through the beginning journey… Heroes and of course…a few holiday selections. Strike continues by confessing
no cash to guarantee success, just hard work that started off in Brisbane, Australia. his admiration for our fine city, “It’s going to be nice to be back here [San Diego].
Yet, when speaking with all ten tenors at once…yes, all ten, it was tenor Tod Strike The last time we were here, it was a sell-out concert…the audiences are just great
who spoke first by saying, “It was in Brisbane back in Australia on the east coast. here. The weather, everything about it, this show at the end of the year is going
But, these days, we all hail from all around Australia…really all around the world to include a little bit more festivity! It’s our Nostalgica tour with some Christmas
but we’re all glad to be Australian. It’s been such a long time and I know it’s the songs involved.”One selection that is really admirable on the newest release
old days in the past but we like to live in the present. What we do now is a lot more is their rendition of “Over the Rainbow.” Not to say I’m partial to the song but I
exciting than what we did then (laughter all around). We get to travel the world wanted to find out who sang lead vocals. That is when openly gay tenor, Dion
for ten months now. We perform to a half dozen different cultures a year, which is Molinas, piped up to say, “That was Steven [Sowden] and me.”
really fantastic. Wherever we travel, we take our Australian charm and our voices Their collaboration with renowned film composer John Barry on Here’s To The
and people love it. We’re grateful to be doing what we’re doing.” Heroes is a remarkable listening experience. Tenor Stewart Morris elaborates,
The Ten Tenors will give San Diego audiences an early Christmas present from “The whole process of making that album for us was really fine. Really exciting…
December 8 through December 11 at our Civic Theatre. They will be performing we recorded at Abbey Road and of course, working with John. But after it, we
8 RAGE monthly | november 2009
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