Word: aria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...positions . . . And you don't have much time because soon Figaro will swing into Se vuol ballare, one of the best woodwork-washing pieces ever composed . . . How would I like an opera to open? With Venetian blinds-that is, music which requires delicacy and reaching-obviously a coloratura aria. Caro nome, for example, would be excellent . . . Wagner, during the Ring cycle, wants [the blinds] left dirty. The forest bird is his only Venetian-blind moment, though if one has mastered a sort of scooping motion, one can manage a few slats while Brünnhilde ho-yo-to-hoes...
...resent acting, and with an ultra-conservative public. Also, a musical score says more about the finished product than the script of a play. Play actors have a more imaginative, personal contribution than musicians. Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy is actually a musical aria, but the 'score' gives only the meaning, not the melody and rhythm...
Luise Vosgerchian, one of the best of our young American pianists, was heard Monday night at Paine Hall in a recital comprising two Scarlatti sontats, Chopin's Fantaisie in F-minor, her own Recitative and Aria, and Beethoven's Sonata...
Some of the finest playing of the evening was achieved in Miss Vosgerchian's own Recitative and Aria, a pianistically inspired piece which revealed some Stravinsky influence and worked up to a tremendously effective climax of grand sonorities using the entire range of the piano...
...addition she will perform in its first local presentation her own composition, Recitative and Aria, written in Paris...