Word: contraltos
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...closer scrutiny than Christine. Her technique with high heels, agreed the tabloids, was poor. "If you shut your eyes when she spoke, you would have thought a man was talking," said the News. To Daily Mirror reporters her voice was "a lilting, feminine soprano" dropping to "a husky, masculine contralto" as she grew tired. All in all, the sight of Christine in the flesh took some of the anticipatory gleam out of the newsmen's eyes. "Her legs, what could be seen of them, were smooth and trim," said the News. "However, the planes of her face were flat...
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Kathleen Ferrier, contralto; Julius Patzak, tenor; the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Bruno Walter; London). These six songs were intended as Mahler's ninth symphony, but a personal superstition made him forgo the title. The dusky warmth of Ferrier's singing, the bright clarity of Patzak's, and the lurid orchestral colors run the gamut of gaiety and sadness. A definitive recording...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest: Contralto Marian Anderson...
Winding up its 27-concert season last week, Lewisohn had also proved that popular music is still popular, consistently drawing more listeners than highbrow events. The Kern-Hammerstein night played to 19,000. the Gershwin night to 18,500. The best draws (17,500) among the classical programs: 1) Contralto Marian Anderson; 2) the combination of Beethoven's music, the conducting of Pierre Monteux and the violin playing of Yehudi Menuhin...
...Bayreuth). Chilean Tenor Ramon Vinay, familiar at the Metropolitan Opera but a stranger to Germany, looked handsome and heroic and sang brilliantly as Tristan. German Soprano Martha Moedl, 37, had begun to sing only eight years ago, but was a warm, natural Isolde. The Brangaene was a Ukrainian contralto named Era Malaniuk. Whatever the critics thought of the sets. they seemed to agree that the new Tristan was a fine musical success...