Word: addison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know of no one in this country with so pure a voice as Miss Adele Addison. Or so beautifully controlled a voice. When she sings one realizes that, like some great dam, she is withholding tremendous power, and releasing only a pure and limpid rivulet of sound. Last night, Miss Addison sang arias from Handel's somewhat neglected L'Allegro and II Penseroso with the Cambridge Society for Early Music; and sang them as only...
Handel's L'Allegro and II Penseroso was written only a short time before the Messiah, but the guileless artifice of his musical imitations of Miltonic imagery, and the prankish innocence of its harmonies sound only distantly related to the Christmas oratorio. For this easy good humor, Miss Addison's most musical and least melancholy voice is eminently suited; not once did she encumber the music with leaden emotions foreign to its spirit, or dirty it with less than perfect phrasing and dynamics. Her coloratura in the incomparable "Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly" was remarkable...
...Robert F. Loeb, pioneer researcher on Addison's disease, former chief medical professor. Columbia University Sc.D...
Lester Trimble: Four Fragments from the Caunterbury Tales (Adele Addison, soprano; Robert Conant, harpsichord; Charles Russo, clarinet; Martin Orenstein. flute; Columbia). A remarkably effective evocation of Chaucerian moods in a score that is clear, nimble and rhythmically sensitive to the text. U.S. Composer Trimble, 37. with admirable help from Soprano Addison. musically meditates on the characters of the Knight, the Squire, and that lover of both "bigamye" and "octogamye." the Wife of Bath...
With a stick in the wet Florida sand, Architect Addison Mizner once drew the outlines of Spanish mansions, clients gave approval on the spot, and construction crews were soon at work on such Palm Beach palaces as Playa Riente, home of Oklahoma Oil King Joshua Cosden, and El Mirasol, where Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury ruled vacationing society. Meanwhile, Addison's brother Wilson and Super-Publicist Harry Reichenbach fleshed out the Mizner principality by adhering to a golden Reichenbach rule: "Get the big snobs and the little snobs will follow...