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...immensely difficult coloratura soprano aria, even for markswomanly singers, is the one in Mozart's Magic Flute in which the Queen of the Night declares that she is boiling with fury. Last week a recording of this air, advertised entirely by rumor, enjoyed a lively little sale at Manhattan's Melotone Recording Studio...
Last week a small orchestra sat on the Town Hall stage, with most of the principal saints in evening dress, the chorus in monkish robes. After seven years Virgil Thomson's tunes still sounded engaging, well-made, occasionally trivial. The most charming aria was still that sung by St. Ignatius: "Pigeons on the grass alas. Short longer grass short longer shorter yellow grass," etc. But Four Saints in Three Acts still owed a lot to its original Cellophane...
...aria and buskin yielded to the sock and tassel. In 1854 some one rented the stage for an exhibition of live Indians. Pentland's Circus and then a group of Chinese jugglers followed. During this transition period touring features such as Zavitowski's Juvenile Ballet still played the Athenaeum. By 1868, though, only cheap variety shows appeared; and the name of "Old Howard," already in common use, was officially adopted...
...music itself: The program opens with organ music by Bach, the Prelude and St. Anne Fugue in E-flat, (so-called because of its similarity to a well-known hymn-tune of the same name), and two chorale preludes. The Grandjany Aria for organ, harp and orchestra, and the Fantasic for harp and organ unaccompanied, are dedicated to Mrs. Coolidge, the sponsor of the concert, and while not dazzlingly modern, are typically French in their balance and delicacy of line. The Handel Harp Concerto is number six of Handel's organ concertos. It was written specifically for harp or organ...
...Aria, elected president of the Republic of Panama this week, is a graduate of the Medical School. Youngest chief executive in this hemisphere, he has selected as his cabinet a group of equally young advisers...