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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...
...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...
...soil, I can compose only in France." Originally, he intended it for one of his favorite singers, Italian Soprano Rosanna Carteri ("She has a voice with lipstick and powder"), but at the work's premiere the principal part was sung by U.S. Negro Soprano Adele Addison, who so impressed Poulenc that he interrupted a rehearsal to shout: "Parfait! Parfait! La perfection!" Poulenc plans to write a new opera for La Scala, and he is now working on yet another religious work, for a male chorus and children's chorus, to be performed at the opening of Manhattan...