Word: basses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foss: The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Burton Trimble, tenor; Ruth Biller, soprano; Paul Ukena, bass-baritone, and others; Frederic Kurzweil, pianist; Lyrichord, 2 sides LP). Brilliant young (28) Lukas Foss's adaptation of Mark Twain makes Foss look like one of the brightest hopes of American opera. Well done by the enterprising After Dinner Opera Co. cast which gave the work its Manhattan premiere (TIME, June 19), The Frog even jumps smartly on records. Recording: good...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Luigi Infantine, tenor; Carlo Badioli, bass; Giulietta Simionato, mezzo-soprano; Giuseppe Taddei, baritone; Antonio Cas-sinelli, bass; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Fernando Previtali conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Barber fans, used to hearing Rosina's arias trilled airily by a coy soprano, will be surprised to hear the role sung here by a more mature-sounding mezzo - as Rossini wrote it. Mezzo Simionato brings it off beautifully; so does Baritone Taddei as Figaro. Conductor Previtali keeps it sparkling throughout. Recording: excellent...
...Kent Club, represented by George C. Caner, Jr. '46 and Harold M. Willcox, won the final judgment of the Ames Competition last Thursday by defeating Robert P. Bass, Jr. '46 and Robert B. Owen, Jr. '48, of the Holmes Club. Robert H. Jackson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, presided...
Conductor Richard Burgin reserved the humor for the end, probably quite unwittingly. Anyone familiar with Brahms' superb piano quartet could not help but be wary of a Schoenberg orchestration calling for two flutes, a piccolo, three oboes, five clarinets, four bassoons, full brass, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, eymbals, triangle, tambourine, Glockenspiel, xylophone, and strings. At the very best, these extra instruments were entirely superfluous to Brahms' musical intentions. At the worst, which was most of the time, they sounded like something Richard Strauss would have reconsidered even in his most beery moments. The percussion thumped, whanged, crashed, and tinkled...
...second half of the season, the orchestra has added two more to swell its record membership to 82. Joseph Cacciati '54 played bass violin for two years with the National Symphony of Washington under Hans Kindler. Another pupil of Richard Burgin, Barbara Sorenson '52 enlarges the violin section...