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JUDY: I hardly think that is the way to refer to the music of the famous teutonic composer, Hans Werner Henze, especially when sung by the theremin-toned Rita Streich. Although not up to her performance in Die Zauberflote (Decca DL 9932, monaural, at the Coop), Miss Streich surely improves the score--which could stand as a musical composition by itself, even while it serves Resnais's most specific dramatic intentions...
WILLIAM WALTON: FAçADE (Decca). At the 1923 London première of Façade, Edith Sitwell read her poems, with their witty musical accompaniment by her young friend Walton, into the mouth of a mask painted on the curtain hiding her from view. Public and critics alike pronounced the evening an outrage. But the musical "entertainment" has been revived again and again, currently in this recording by Actress Hermione Gingold and Countertenor Russell Oberlin, with Thomas Dunn conducting the small chamber ensemble. Unfortunately for them, Dame Edith herself, with Peter Pears, has performed the work for London...
SONGS FROM A COLONIAL TAVERN (Decca) have been chosen from more than 7,000 old ditties unearthed by Taylor Vrooman, who dresses up in knee breeches and sings them for visitors to Virginia's reconstructed colonial Williamsburg. Vrooman, and the cronies who sing catches with him, perform here with a formality and finish more suitable for a concert hall than a tavern, in spite of lyrics like "From good liquor ne'er shrink...
...PLAY OF HEROD (2 LPs; Decca) is a 12th century music drama reconstructed from a manuscript belonging to the French Benedictine monastery of Fleury. It begins with the archangel's announcement of the birth of Christ and ends when the holy family returns to Galilee after the slaying of the innocents. With its chanted Latin lines, the music sounds strange to 20th century ears-and might seem a trifle odd to medieval ghosts as well, for although the melodies were clearly indicated, rhythms and instruments were not. Scholars aided by a grant from the Ford Foundation prepared the work...
...COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT (Decca) is an album by Pianist Peter Duchin, Eddy's son, and his smoothly swinging band, which was launched two years ago at Manhattan's St. Regis, and has since played the frug for Luci Johnson in the White House. He plays pieces like Days of Wine and Roses and The Party's Over on the hesitating side, and sheathes Mack the Knife in satin...