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...Contralto Marian Anderson left New York's La Guardia Airport bound for her first concert tour of Japan and a stint of troop entertaining in Korea...
Other new releases: Nine Beethoven bympnomes (Victor), with Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony (hand somely packaged at $52.40); Bach and Handel Arias (London), sung by Contralto Kathleen Ferrier with the London Philharmonic, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé-Complete Ballet (London), with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Geneva Motet Choir conducted by Ernest Ansermet...
Gilda Hoffman '54 will play Mozart's Piano Sonata in A Minor, K. 310, Miss Hoffman will then accompany Dorothy Barnhouse '53, contralto, in three songs by Debussy. Milford's Sonata for Flute and Piano, will be played by Neville H. Fletcher 1G, flutist, and John Davison 2G, pianist. The program will conclude with a Movement from a Concerto in A Minor by Joel Mandelbaum '53, played on two pianos by the composer and Ann Besser...
Finally, the remarkably sensitive work of the small group which performed the chansons deserves mention. Their diction was excellent and they were quick to catch the constantly shifting moods of the songs. Dorothy Barnhouse's contralto was perfectly suited to the solo she sang in Debussy's Quant fai ouy le tabourin. The audience demanded and received an encore of her very moving rendition...
...soloists had an easy time. Contralto Margaret Roggero, whose rich, pure voice compensated for her poor diction, had one lovely aria in the first act. Yi-Kwei Sze, as Friar Laurence, showed fine tonal control, even in the lowest registers. The sudden emergence of his booming bass voice in the midst of a choral and orchestral tutti was one of the finest moments in the work...