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Perhaps the performance erred to the other extreme, for it emphasized the somberness of the text at the expense of its pain. Accompanist Marian Whitney was wooden and occasionally bumbling. The solo varied from Lila Woodruff's supple Vidit suum dulcem natum to Sharon Price's tentative, poorly-pitched Fac, ut portem Christic mortem; Gay Sa'adah and Phyllis Sogg performed quite capably...
With Power to Spare. "Leontyne leads with that voice," says her accompanist. David Garvey. "It is her Rock of Gibraltar." Leontyne's Gibraltar is known technically as a lyric spinto-a high soprano voice with dramatic feeling. No singer today is better capable of straddling both the lyric and the dramatic moods than she is, and none possesses a voice that is more secure throughout its considerable range-the G below middle C to the D above high C. Says she: "I never try an F in public. I sometimes do it in the shower, but there...
...sing an audition at Carnegie Hall, without saying who was to hear her. As she started to sing, she noticed a "slim, good-looking man with salt-and-pepper hair eating a club sandwich." Midway through the audition, the slim man abandoned his sandwich, excitedly pushed the accompanist aside and rushed Leontyne through Pace, pace mio Dio! from La Forza del Destino. "I then learned," says she, "that it was Herbert von Karajan...
Abroad she likes the relaxed atmosphere concerning "the matter of pigmentation," nevertheless spends most of her time with her accompanist, or secretary, or the professionals that cluster around opera houses and recording companies. She has been taken in warmly at the Met where she is known, according to a colleague, as "not typical by singer standards-she's too nice...
...only luxury she finds time for is buying dresses (in Rome) and hats and suits (in Vienna). She has also completely refurnished the Price home in Laurel, built a room to accommodate Big Auntie. She now has a considerable entourage, including a personal manager, a concert manager, an accompanist, a pressagent, a male secretary and a housekeeper, all of whom, as Teacher Kimball once put it, "would like to put a silver shield around her to protect...