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...Greek naturalism. After Gluck's death, better composers than he utilized some of his reforms, while Orfeo all but disappeared from the standard repertory (the Met revived it two years ago). Now the endless search for operatic treasure has driven the recordmakers back to Gluck; both Epic and Decca have issued nearly complete versions of the opera (and RCA Victor is recording its own version in Rome...
...upon.) Of the two versions, Epic's (in French) is more authentic historically, but less effective, chiefly because Canadian Tenor Leopold Simoneau's silver-hued voice seems less moving in the role of the suffering Orpheus than the lyric baritone of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, imaginatively cast by Decca in its German-language version. The supporting casts in both albums are excellent: Sopranos Suzanne Danco and Pierette Alarie (Epic), Maria Stader and Rita Streich (Decca). Despite the good singing, the recordings suffer from the opera's basic structural fault. Groundbreaker though he was in his own day, Composer...
JERRY LEWIS, who tries not to be funny, and fails-chiefly because his squeaky voice is a weird amalgam of Al Jolson and Baby Snooks-in Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody (Decca). But his album, Jerry Lewis Just Sings, is a bestseller...
Just a little over a year ago, the owner of a small Miami nightspot gave her job at $125 a week ("It seemed like fortune"). Then Walter Winchell spottec her, and Miami Beach's Eden Roc Hotel hired Roberta at $1,700 a week. Decca Records signed her. Now she makes as much as $5,000 a week...
...exuberant piece in a weak-and-strong two-beat, with barnyard sounds reproduced by cornet, clarinet and trombone. From there, the album ranges over various jazz styles-blues, swing, cool-and reaches a high point with Fats Waller's full-chorded, stomping piano playing and lowdown comic singing. Decca's four-record Encyclopedia of Jazz covers much the same ground, with one LP devoted to each of the last four decades. Among its best offerings: a 1927 recording of Johnny Dodds's Black Bottom Stompers in Wild Man Blues, displaying Trumpeter Louis Armstrong as sideman...