Word: contralto
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...Gustav Mahler in 1907. Aware that he was dying of a heart ailment, the composer felt a heightened awareness of worldly joys and beauties, and a piercing melancholy over losing them. He took six verses by Li T'ai-Po and other Chinese poets as texts for tenor, contralto and orchestra, and wrote his farewell in Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), his most personal and by all odds his best work. Scored in a rich, late-romantic idiom, its bursts of sweetness are coated with vinegar, its drawn-out lines of resignation elevated...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "An Easter Greeting: Selections from Handel's Messiah,'" performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, featuring Soprano Phyllis Curtin, Contralto Maureen Forrester and Tenor Richard Lewis from the Red Rocks Amphitheater near Denver...
...elimination of these solos was all the more puzzling because the soloists did begin to sing in "Ich bin ein guter Hirt." Marsha Vleck, soprano; Jane Struss, contralto; Karl Dan Sorensen, tenor, and Francis Hester, bass, all sang clearly and sensitively, and, like the chorus, without any heaviness or pretension. Sorensen was especially fine, floating without apparent effort over long lines almost continuously in his highest register. Hester was stronger in "Ihr Menschen" than in "Ich bin ein guter Hirt," in which there were moments when he was almost covered by the orchestra. Penelope Ann Colwell and Cynthia Weinrich...
Arrivederci, Baby! Across the screen on twinkle toes comes skipping one of the cutest little velveteen-agers the public has seen since Freddie Bartholomew turned contralto. He has big brown eyes and pretty brown bangs, and in that silly-frilly Little Lord Fauntleroy suit he doesn't look a day over twelve. He does look familiar, though. No, it can't be-Tony Curtis...
...begin with, even the foremost violinists are out of tune. Jascha Heifetz, Leonid Kogan and Isaac Stern like the dark, virile tone of the Guarneri; Zino Francescatti, Yehudi Menuhin and David Oistrakh prefer the lighter, silvery tone of the Stradivari. The Guarneri has the breadth and projection of a contralto, says one camp. Ah, yes, but the Strad has the clarity and finesse of a soprano, counters the other. That Stradivari enjoys a more illustrious reputation, says Heifetz, is because "he had a better pressagent." Actually, claims Jascha, "the Guarneri is a joyous woman, richly experienced in life; the Stradivari...