Word: accompanists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wings of song) for a six-week tour of Holland, Belgium, France, Italy, Germany and England. There they will sing around 30 concerts in as many cities and towns under the leadership of G. Wallace Woodworth '24, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music (who, by the way, served as accompanist for the group's 1921 tour...
...Glamis thou art" aria from a new opera Macbeth by Edward Goldman, who was present; an aptly melodramatic setting, with particularly effective use of low notes. Singers joined at end for pair of the too rarely heard Schumann duets and a scene from Carmen. Laurence Berman the able accompanist on an out-of-tune piano...
...Timothy Cogan and Leonard Herzog are the most amusing. Jay Shuchter's stage direction makes effective use of military absurdities, and Michael Biddle has constructed an attractive set. The operas are under the fine musical supervision of Paul Sperry, who has been fortunate in getting Richard Friedberg as the accompanist. Too much studying is bad for the health...
...read Gerald Moore's book The Unashamed Accompanist, about his ups and downs at the keyboard, and thought it would make the basis of a good record. It did. "We have some friends who love cats," she adds. "I like cats all right, and a cat record occurred to me." Practical Cats, with Robert Donat reading T. S. Eliot poems to music by Alan Rawsthorne, turned up in due course...
Died. Charles Edward ("Cow Cow") Davenport, 63, self-taught Negro composer of more than 100 songs (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You; Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here), onetime piano accompanist for the late Bessie Smith; of a heart attack; in Cleveland...