Word: contralto
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...more accessible, although it remains a rather tough puzzle. Certainly it has far more surface attraction than the Stockhausen recorded here: Boulez call for alto flute, xylorymba, vibraphone, guitar, viola, and several exotic percussion instruments. Four of the nine sections are settings of surrealistic poetry by Rene Char; the contralto Margery MacKay displays here an engagingly warm and sensuous voice. Practically all of the music moves at a furious tempo; this speed, coupled with the wide intervals and the high register of the instruments makes the specific pitch of each note difficult to grasp. This is also the case with...
Named by the President to the U.S. delegation for the 13th session of the United Nations General Assembly was a golden-voiced Connecticut Democrat: Negro Contralto Marian Anderson. The choice strengthened what has become a U.S. tradition of naming distinguished women as U.N. delegates. Among her predecessors: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Ohio Republican Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton, Cinemactress Irene Dunne and Mrs. Oswald B. Lord...
...time, Contralto Bergen got only modest praise for her portrayal of the tragic, wistful singer who epitomized a whole era's image of gently fallen women. But it marked the welcome end of the Pepsi-Cola girl. A shapely brunette with startlingly wide-set eyes of sky-blue, 27-year-old Polly now has her own biweekly variety show on CBS. So far, she has not attempted any new dramatic parts...
...appeared at La Scala, Covent Garden. Florence. Bayreuth. With her 2½-octave range she has sung 20-odd roles, including Carmen. Gluck's Orpheus, Dora-bella in Mozart's Cosí fan Tutte, Ulrica in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, plus mezzo and contralto parts in the Ring cycle...
Singers: Sopranos Lucine Amara, Mary Curtis-Verna, Gloria Davy, Leontyne Price, Eleanor Steber; Mezzo-Sopranos Nan Merriman and Regina Resnik; Contralto Jean Madeira; Tenors David Lloyd, Jan Peerce. Richard Tucker; Baritones George London, Robert McFerrin and William Warneld...