Word: aria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Male Performance: Eugene Gervasi, as Corydon in Millay's "Aria Da Capo"; Harold Scott, as The Son in "The Purification"; James Stinson, as Herby in Lawrence's "Six Strings...
...favors of their womenfolk on the "inspector"-in the end, of course, he turns out to be merely an amiable, drink-swilling traveler -Composer Egk accompanies them with a staccato, dissonant score pricked by brisk and frequently shifting rhythms. Old-fashioned opera buffs will be startled by the spare arias, which are stripped to a few essential Greek-chorus phrases (in his first aria, the prefect sings over and over again: "Clean shirts, clean nightcaps, Latin mottoes over the beds"). Egk also allows the singers to sing their essential recitatives against the support merely of a sustained bass. The result...
...Bach, the recitative was not merely an easy way to eat up text and set the key for the next aria, but an integral part of the musical fabric. The founder of the Orchestra, Michael Greenebaum, was on hand for the concert, and he must have been pleased to hear it giving fine performances of such great music...
Several instrumental soloists distinguished themselves, among them: flutists, Sue Alder and Cynthia Crane in the "Et misericordia" and "Esurientes" sections, and Michael Senturia, who played the oboe obligato during the soprano aria, "Quia respexit." The string section as a whole produced remarkably good intonation and tone quality. It is not surprising that the chorus was not quite up to the caliber of the orchestra since the singers were all freshmen. An unfortunate case of extreme flatting occured in the course of the woman's chorus "Suscepit Israel...
...gambler's dark shirt and the cheap Sunday suit of a Sicilian villager, Tucker swaggered about the stage in response to broken pleas from Santuzza (well sung by Veteran Zinka Milanov). He powerfully thundered forth his challenge to Alfio, husband of his mistress, and in the final great aria movingly sang his farewell to his mother, the sure delicacy of his voice topped off by his rough parting cry: "Un bacio, mamma, addio!" After the intermission, the other local man showed up in Pagliacci, costumed in disreputable red wig, striped T shirt and ill-fitting green jacket. Leonard Warren...