Word: contralto
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MAHLER: Das Lied von der Erde (London 4212). An unmatched rendering by Conductor Bruno Walter and Contralto Kathleen Ferrier...
...Dick Gregory. Before the service, Richard Nixon leaned over to whisper hello to Jacqueline Kennedy, black-draped in the pew ahead, and received an icy stare in return. Such soulful spirituals as My Heavenly Father, Watch Over Me and If I Can Help Somebody were rendered so poignantly by Contralto Mary Gurley and Mrs. Jimmie Thomas, a soprano, of the Ebenezer Church Choir that Singer Mahalia Jackson, the misty mistress of mourning, began to weep silently...
...premiere of Eugene O'Neill's More Stately Mansions, the leading lady strode to the top row of Los Angeles' new Ahmanson Theater. "This great theater," she proclaimed, "will be filled with O'Neill's beautiful words." In fact, a throbbing contralto was already filling the house. The rehearsing star was Ingrid Bergman, making her first U.S. stage appearance in 21 years...
Under that layer is the work of an attractively gifted singer, her husky, throbbing contralto giving off a languor that occasionally approaches drowsiness, her guitar unexceptional but sufficient. Though a newcomer to solo circles, Bobbie is clearly a pro. Her first song, composed at the age of seven, was picked out on the family's upright piano, and had to do with her English shepherd, Sergeant. Later came studies at the Los Angeles Conservatory and U.C.L.A., but not for long. Since the age of 17, Bobbie has supported herself in assorted musical jobs, working...
Massachusetts-born Cathy Berberian is not only a singer of note but also a singer of sounds. Her expressive voice, ranging three octaves from contralto to coloratura, enables her to handle every thing in the standard repertory, but Cathy prefers to specialize in avant-garde music. Impressed by her ability to mix bel canto with barks, grunts, moans and sighs and to compete vocally with tape-recorded noises and electronic beeps, such experimental composers as John Cage, Sylvano Busotti and Luciano Berio (her estranged hus band) have helped make her the undisputed diva of the daring (TIME...