Word: contraltos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devoted admirers - Braque. Virgil Thomson, Lytton Strachey, Edith Sitwell, Ezra Pound. Ford Madox Ford and, of course, the young Hemingway -who sat in the atelier at 27 Rue de Fleurus reverently listening to the voice that Alice Toklas can still plainly hear - "deep, full, velvety like a great contralto's." She heard it last in a hospital room shortly before Gertrude was wheeled away for an operation that she did not survive: "By this time Gertrude Stein was in a sad state of indecision and worry. I sat next to her and she said to me early...
...smaller parts are all done very well. The standout is the Orlofsky of Jean Sanders, a wonderfully stylized caricature. Miss Sanders seems every inch a professional, and her rich contralto gives "Chacun a son gout" just the right flavor. Both costumes and settings show up well under an especially good lighting system, and entrances and exits are managed exactly on cue without some of the fuss that attends; them in some theatre-in-the-round productions. One could wish for a more authentic, more piquant savor to the lyrics, but Die Fledermaus remains much like Gilbert and Sullivan: there...
...Staples, two daughters and a son. Their muted but intensely exciting gospel style, with its country blues feeling, is a reflection of what Roebuck heard when he was growing up in rural Mississippi. Roebuck himself is a first-rate guitarist, but his daughter Mavis is the best vocalist-a contralto whose voice has both a honeyed quality and almost hypnotic intensity. The Staples, who have been appearing together for 12 years, feel "we are fulfilling our obligation as Christian people by singing the Gospel...
...Boulanger's conducting with its extreme economy of harmonic movement and accompaniment. Under her restraint, the ensemble of some twenty singers and twenty instrumentalists managed to sound personal, even intimate. Tenor Karl Dan Sorenson filled the museum court-yard with his clear and accurate voice; in her second solo, Contralto Jenneke Barton did the same...
...Blake Recitative' By Edwin Roxburgh (1937- ) received its first performance in the United States. For contralto solo (Miss Paquet) and small string ensemble, the work combined clearly defined theme and form with a lyric excitement and mobility. In that it exploited chromatic resources and non-traditional tensions, it was a modern work. It was carefully thought out and emotionally effective. Miss Paquet handled the difficult solo line with sureness; her performance showed that what might have been thought an unmusical vocal line really just expanded the meaning of lyricism...