Word: concertizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also knows why he gets so few chances to prove it to the public. "Concert managers tell you the cello is a little-liked instrument," he says. Then he explains: "The cello is about a century behind the violin. Paganini [1782-1840] was the turning point in the violin, 100 years before Pablo Casals [born 1876] who was the turning point in the cello." Those 100 years. Starker points out, enclose most of the great composers. Since they wrote relatively little music for the cello virtuoso, he reasons, the cello is an unfamiliar solo instrument to the public...
...weekend symposium of leading Rubens experts, a concert of Baroque music in the courtyard of Fogg, and a Houghton Library show of some of the artist's illustrations for books will augment the collection of 49 works...
...gamut was smooth and even from the light, flutey high notes, where sopranos often lose character, to rich, viola-like lows. When she finished her arias, she accepted her heavy applause and sat down serenely, secure in the knowledge that she could remain at the top of the concert heap indefinitely...
Recently, her interest has been turning toward opera. She scored a hit in Berg's Wozzeck, when Dimitri Mitropoulos gave a concert version with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony (TIME, April 23, 1951). A year ago, when M-G-M made Unfinished Melody, about the life of onetime Metropolitan Opera Soprano Marjorie Lawrence, Soprano Farrell went to Hollywood to dub in her voice (the part was played by Cinemactress Eleanor Parker). Singer Farrell displayed all the instincts of a born vaudevillian. Says she: "When Lawrence drops to the stage with polio while singing the Liebestod, I sang with frogs...
Stylish Stout. Last month she undertook still another operatic assignment, in the name part of Cherubini's Medea, done in concert form in Manhattan's Town Hall. The role is one of opera's most difficult, but it held no terrors for Soprano Farrell. During rehearsal her attitude was playful. She kidded the French horn player for a minute burble, grinned delightedly at the violins when they produced a soaring harmony. While her voice was deep in Medea's wells of grief, jealousy, and hatred, she artlessly combed her hair for a press photographer...