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One Sunday morning a musical press-agent and thwarted opera singer named Alix Williamson was indulging her favorite whim: lolling in her bathtub, lazily singing arias from grand opera. Perhaps because she was singing out of tune, she began to concentrate on the words. How silly they could sound in...
Box-Office Tonic. Surprise hit of the festival was the nine-member Bach Aria Group from the U.S., organized nine years ago by Oil Heir William H. Scheide, a onetime music teacher at Cornell University. Bach Specialist Scheide, who has long maintained that the cantatas are the heart of Bach...
When historians eventually fix the place and time of the Republic of Panama's change from a Bolivarian nation* to a Central American nation, they may well decide on an offhand conference held one day last week at a grey clapboard customs house on the border between Costa Rica...
In casual contrast to the bejeweled pomp of the strongmen's council in Peru (see above), Arias and Figueres, with their Foreign Ministers, sat down at a table placed astride the international boundary line. With banana pickers, cops and Cabinet Ministers wandering freely around, the ceremonies were simple and...
Rossini: Stabat Mater (Maria Stader, Marianna Radev, Ernst Häfliger, Kim Borg; RIAS Symphony conducted by Ferenc Fricsay; Decca, 2 LPs). The composer who was once advised by Beethoven to stick to comic opera, here turns up in a churchly (if not always churchlike) mood. The chorus sings some...