Word: crown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RICHARD STRAUSS LIEDER (London). While Strauss's songs unquestionably sound better when sung by a soprano, Hermann Prey does all that a young rich baritone possibly can. While he cannot claim Fischer-Dieskau's crown as a lieder singer, his open, direct approach gives this record considerable charm...
...Stag King, a kind of atonal A Midsummer Night's Dream, the night belonged to Shirley, costumed in an oversized crown and half mask. An in stinctively gifted actor, he also displayed a lyrical, handsomely rounded voice, which prompted one Manhattan critic to declare: "Here, at last, is a tenor who might some day aspire to the supreme place still occupied by Richard Tucker." Though Henze's modernist fantasy was received with some eyebrow-raising by the Santa Fe audience, Shirley drew a rousingly enthusiastic ovation...
...this is to work harder. "He takes so many commissions so that he will not have time to die," says a New York dealer and longtime friend. Although Chagall does not seek them out, he now finds himself engulfed with the monumental public commissions that rarely come to crown the career of a great artist. Only in his 60s did he learn to stain glass. Since then, in a torrent of production, he has done two windows for the Metz Cathedral, followed by twelve windows for the Hadassah Medical Center's synagogue in Jerusalem. Last fall he finished...
YESTERDAY IS TOMORROW by Malvina Hoffman. 378 pages. Crown...
...SEAT OF POWER by James D. Horan. 438 pages. Crown...