Word: brice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Falla: El Amor Brujo (the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting, with Nan Merriman, mezzo-soprano; Victor, 6 sides; the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting, with Carol Brice, contralto; Columbia, 6 sides). Reiner's version of this Debussy-scented Andalusian suite, which includes the popular Fire Dance, is less vivid than Stokowski...
...other nights last week New Yorkers could hear brilliant, brash Lenny Bernstein's New York City Symphony playing the new music that the older conductors ignore. They crowded into recitals by Singers Marian Anderson, Carol Brice and Giuseppe De Luca; concerts by Pianists John Kirkpatrick and Alexander Brailowsky (who in six programs is playing every solo piano piece Chopin wrote). There were folk songs and ballads, American songs by Tom Scott, South African veld songs by Josef Marais, and jive concerts all over the place...
Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer (Carol Brice, contralto, with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). In the first recording of these six songs of unrequited love, written by Mahler when he was 23 Koussevitzky's protégée, Carol Brice (TIME, March 11) reveals a promising, big, warm voice. Performance: good...
Such stars as Burns & Allen, Joan Davis and Fannie Brice were jittery about their present sponsors (Lever Brothers, General Foods...
...Loud, ewe-mouthed, old-Ziegfeldian Funny woman Fanny Brice, in a Bronx rage involving her husband, her landlord and a winning sweepstake ticket...