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MOZART: OVERTURES (Angel). Besides six overtures, including The Marriage of Figaro and Cosl Fan Tutte, Otto Klemperer plays the gently brooding Masonic Funeral Music and the rich and somber Adagio and Fugue in C Minor, which Mozart arranged for string orchestra from a two-piano fugue. With London's Philharmonia Orchestra, which was reorganized and renamed the New Philharmonic Orchestra during the course of these performances...
...sweet and pure. As Belshazzar John Howell's voice is rough and dull, as it should be; and when Daniel reads him the prophecy of doom his voice quavers and almost cracks with fear. The one female in the production, Sandra Robbins, plays both Belshazzar's queen and the angel. Her soprano voice rings clearly and powerfully over the male voices, and projects almost enough femininity to balance with the rest of the cast. The chorus in solemn, hollow, and always in tune on the difficult modal chants. The small group of instruments is just wispy and scratchy enough...
DELIUS: SONGS OF FAREWELL (Angel). "How sweet the silent backward tracings!" Walt Whitman's verses begin. Delius was blind when he wrote this tone poem for double chorus and orchestra, with its sliding harmonies complex in texture yet as delicate as sighs. Sir Malcolm Sargent conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Choral Society...
...keep supply ships offshore. It flies ammunition and chow to artillery units isolated by the Viet Cong, now moves 65% of the military air cargo inside road-shy South Viet Nam. Wrote Marine Captain George A. Baker III to his cousin in Georgia: "The Hercules is somewhat our guardian angel...
Britain's J. B. Priestley writes rather more than the average man talks. In the past 44 years he has published 37 plays, 29 volumes of nonfiction and 22 novels. His worst novels read as easy as a rug unrolls, and his best novels (Angel Pavement, The Good Companions) sound like Dickens updated and not too much marked down. Now 71, Priestley gives no evidence of deceleration-in recent months he has published two new novels in the U.S. Lost Empires is a warm, rowdy, old-fashioned tale about the vaudeville circuits in Britain half a century...