Word: delia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (Lisa Delia Casa; the Chicago Symphony, conducted by Fritz Reiner; RCA Victor, mono and stereo). Even in the flood of Mahler-year recordings, Conductor Reiner's brilliant, surgically clean reading of the Fourth is a standout. Under his baton, the massive Mahler sonorities remain remarkably clear and unclotted, and what often smacks of bombast in other performances emerges as music of dignity and grandeur. Soprano Delia Casa sings the folklike melody of the fourth movement with warmth and charm...
...Lebrun is hard at work on a vast vinylite-and-cement mural, depicting scenes from Genesis. Equally inspired by Rome is Harvard-trained Henry Millon, 33, art historian and architect. "I have spent hours staring at St. Peter's," says he, "and I've now decided that Delia Porta was wrong in his elevation of the curve of the dome. It may have all kinds of effect on my work." Rome has also transformed Princeton-bred Musician John Eaton 24, who in his younger days barnstormed the U.S. with a jazz combo. Eaton has set John Donne...
...Delia (Delia Reese; RCA Victor, mono and stereo). In a style that is not pretty and voice that is not sweet, one of the most exciting of the newer girl singers expresses her rather tigerish devotions in numbers such as If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight and You're Driving Me Crazy. There is a growling, brassy quality under even the floating notes, and the words and phrases are often bitten off or stretched into a kind of slurring leer, but at her best Singer Reese projects a vivid image-that of a tender roughneck...