Word: coloraturas
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...ever played the game of U.S. concert management with a shrewder gambler's eye than pudgy, Russian-born Sol Hurok of Manhattan. Last week Hurok gambled $120,000 on one of the longest and prettiest shots of his career. She was a pert, dark-haired, 18-year-old coloratura soprano named Patrice Munsel. For his $120,000, Hurok got the rights to Patrice's concert and radio appearances for three years. On an operatic filly who has not yet run her maiden race, that was tall betting...
...only 16 years old. The chorus here demonstrated a great deal of precision and feeling, perhaps because of the smaller group and the superior acoustics of Sanders Theatre. Margaret Codd Goldovsky sang the soprano solo, Ora Pro Nobis, from this aria, with great feeling and expression, although in the coloratura passages of the last movement she seemed still to lack that almost instrumental clarity and agility required for singing Mozart...
Bach Brandenburg Concertos (Busch Chamber Players; Columbia; 2 volumes, 27 sides). A reissue of a definitive and historic Bach recording. Trumpeter George Eskdale plays some of the most remarkable coloratura ever achieved on a brass instrument...
This spectacle went on all week at the Paramount. Many hepcats sat through most of the seven shows a day, chewing chocolate bars and put-up lunches. Some had passed up $8 in defense plants, $5 in grocery stores, etc., to hear the brazen coloratura of James's trumpet. Puzzled adults who asked what he had never got a clearer answer than: "It does something to your blood." Said the harassed Paramount switchboard operator: "Don't mention the name James...
Helen Traubel discusses her operatic exploits with a great bellowing laugh, claims she works off as many pounds during a Wagnerian performance as a Yale quarterback in the Harvard game. "Dieting is all right for those little coloratura sopranos," says she, "but not for me. You've got to have plenty of stuffing to sing Wagner...