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Under its new conductor, Russell Stanger, the orchestra will perform December 6 and 7 in Sanders Theater, in a program which features the Glee Club singing Bach's Magnificat. Two of the soloists for this performance will be Eunice Alberts, contralto, who opened and closed last summer at Tanglewood with Serge Koussevitsky, and Paul Tibbetts, who sung the bass role in the past two Orchestra-Glee Club performances of the Messiah...
...first few bars of a Peruvian folk chant called High Andes, the full-figured Peruvian girl onstage rumbled roundly at the bottom of contralto range. Then, to their astonishment, she soared effortlessly up a full four octaves, began trilling like a canary at the top of coloratura. At the end of her first song, the audience was still too surprised to raise more than warm applause. The second, Tumpa (Earthquake), brought cheers; after the third, a pyrotechnical Inca Hymn to the Sun, the applause and cheers swelled to a roar for encores. Guest Conductor Arthur Fiedler, who had a plane...
...women have made a name in music as composers, fewer still as operatic composers. The only authoressed opera ever produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, Englishwoman Ethel Smyth's Der Wald, fizzled after two performances in 1903. But last week a onetime Metropolitan contralto-turned-composer was making a valiant...
Strauss: Excerpts from Der Rosenkavalier (Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and Irmgard Seefried, sopranos; Dagmar Hermann, contralto; Ludwig Weber, bass; with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Otto Ackermann conducting; Columbia 2 sides LP). For the Vienna company, singing Der Rosenkavalier is a matter of doing what comes naturally. Outstanding: Soprano Seefried's Octavian in the second-act love duet with Sophie (Soprano Schwarzkopf). Recording: good...
...Contralto Marian Anderson, appearing at London's Royal Albert Hall, had to turn away from the audience twice to sing to the 1,200 music lovers crowded on narrow benches in the organ gallery behind the stage. The overflow of fans had stood in line most...