Word: contraltos
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...began her performance with a Bible reading ("to give me inner strength"), then just seemed to brim over with music. Shaking her head till the combs flew out of her hair, whacking her hands together or stretching her arms ecstatically over her head, she raised her creamy contralto in such Salvationist swingers as Just Over the Hill or I Will Move On Up a Little Higher. Last week Mahalia herself moved on up, dying of heart disease at 60 after several years of poor health...
Another guest had more to muse on than most: Contralto Marian Anderson. In 1939, she had been refused permission by the Daughters of the American Revolution to sing in Constitution Hall because she is black. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the D.A.R., and Anderson sang instead on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Last week, Miss Anderson sat in the presidential...
...Wolves sing. > There are lupine vocal registers-soprano wolves, contralto wolves, tenor wolves, even a bass wolf or two. > Wolves have a characteristic call in which the interval of the major sixth (C to A) predominates...
...ages of 14 and 22 for ten days of expert coaching, supervised practice and-for players so young-the rare opportunity to give three orchestral concerts at Carnegie Hall. The kids gave up their Christmas leisure to eat and sleep music. So did Sasha, along with Mischa, Felix, Contralto Maureen Forrester and Violinists Itzhak Perlman and Jaime Laredo. The result was a contrived yet carefree musical happening that bore some resemblance to a classical Woodstock. As a young second violinist put it: "The vibes were good...
NAKED woman, black woman, clothed with your color which is life, with your form which is beauty . . ./ Your solemn contralto voice is the spiritual song of the beloved." So wrote Senegal's Poet-President Leopold Senghor. A beautiful Ghanaian playwright and teacher, Effua Sutherland, recently tried to describe another aspect of the African woman's traditional role. "She is a goddess because she founds society. Her breasts are more of a motherly symbol than a sexual one. She is the power behind man." Mrs. Sutherland carefully recited the words of English Explorer Mary Kingsley, who once wrote...