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...French aria and Negro spirituals-and more than fulfilled the sponsoring State Department's hopes that she would reap good will for the U.S. along with the applause. Last week Singer Anderson reached New Delhi and learned that she was already a sellout attraction. Music lovers had scrambled to snap up the 1,200 available tickets that filled New Delhi's biggest concert hall to capacity...
...drama. Saroyan's words are too many and too vague; the dialogue, at moments, even sounds as if the actors were unsure of their lines. As it happens, the actors are extremely good. As staged by Carmen Capalbo, the production provides lift: Barry Jones makes a fine-flowing aria of his unhappiness, Eugenie Leontovitch a bright nonsense piece of her stage memories...
...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...
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...