Word: chabay
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...Juliet (Chorus and soloists with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Munch; Victor, 2 LPs). Musical sweet talk in its sweetest, if not most stimulating, performance on records. Included are some meltingly graceful choruses (sung by Harvard and Radcliffe groups) and solos by Contralto Margaret Roggero, Tenor Leslie Chabay and Basso Yi-Kwei...
...Hall stage with military precision, and sang eleven brief world premieres. Hardest-working musician at the festival was Conductor William Steinberg, who spent as many as twelve hours a day rehearsing and leading three orchestral programs. Visiting performers included the Juilliard, New Music and Walden String Quartets, singers Leslie Chabay and Nell Rankin and the U.S. Military Academy Band. Across the footlights were critics from as far away as California and England...
...Leslie Chabay cleared the air with his luminous renditions of six German songs. Expertly accompanied by Mr. Frank, he sang these settings of Goethe poems with warmth and clarity...
...versatile Mr. Chabay returned to sing Bartok arrangements of five Hungarian folk songs. These range from the pathetic irony of In Jail to the half-cheerfulness of Dance Song, and the tenor sung them all with such finesse and sympathy that he was called back for an encore...
...capture the sound and spirit of Bach's day, Conductor Robert Shaw cut the RCA Victor Orchestra down to 23 pieces, kept choruses small for most of it. As soloists, Blanche Thebom, Mack Harrell and Leslie Chabay are first class. The result is one of the most magnificent recordings of the year...
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