Word: contraltos
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Folk Songs (Kathleen Ferrier, contralto; Phyllis Spurr, piano; London FFRR, 6 sides). Includes the Northumbrian classics, Blow the Wind Southerly, The Keel Row, the Elizabethan Have You Seen but a White Lily Grow? and Willow, Willow, all sung with incomparable beauty and style. Recording: excellent...
Summer Concert Series (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts NBC Symphony. Soloist: Contralto Elena Nikolaidi...
Tubby, benign Pierre Monteux, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, came asaving. Last fortnight, his shoe-button eyes shining, Monteux was in the pit at Amsterdam's Stadsschouwburg theater. Onstage as Orfeo was Kathleen Ferrier (TIME, March 14), the English girl whose sumptuous contralto has earned her first title to the role. The rest of the cast, including a first-rate soprano named Greet Koeman, was Dutch...
...years since her debut at the Berkshire Festival, when Serge Koussevitzky had called her "a native Flagstad," Norfolk-born Dorothy Maynor has gone a long way. She has sung with most of the great U.S. orchestras, crisscrossed the U.S. and South America with concert tours. However, like her famed contralto counterpart, Marian Anderson, she has not yet been invited to sing at the Metropolitan Opera...
...Take Thy Rest." Dark-haired, vigorous Conductor Jones had few worries about his soloists (one, Contralto Lilian Knowles, is his wife) or about the great choir before him. Some of the choristers didn't even need scores. Mrs. George W. Halliwell, 82, was a charter member who had been singing in the choir ever since its founder, J. Fred Wolle, came home to Bethlehem 50 years ago from his studies in Munich, determined to dedicate himself and Bethlehem to Bach. Two others had been singing for 47 years, and more than 40 had been in the choir...