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...with a greying Vandyke beard strode on stage at Manhattan's Town Hall last week. An imposing figure in white tie and tails, he waited as the 27-piece Esterhazy Orchestra played the first lilting strains of Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Then, clasping his hands, Alfred Deller began to sing. The contrast was startling: out of this burly frame poured the extraordinarily high, bell-clear voice of that rarest of all male singers, the countertenor...
Purcell: Come Ye Sons of Art (Alfred Deller, countertenor; Vanguard) is a happy new appearance of Purcell's birthday music for Queen Mary, this time with Deller and his countertenor son, Mark, sharing the sublime duet...
...supernatural passages Britten concentrated on fantastical sounds: mysterious tinklings of the celesta, curious patterns of bells, vocal parts accompanied only by harps and percussion. To place the world of the fairies at a clear remove from the world of mortals, Britten wrote the part of Oberon for countertenor (Alfred Deller), a high-pitched, constricted voice never heard in modern opera, and Titania for high soprano (Jennifer Vyvyan). The music of the lovers, on the other hand, was mainly characterized by throbbing, Wagnerian chords while the music for the rustics was simple and zestful-as broadly comic as Shakespeare...
...avowedly intellectual school limited to such rigorous matters as rhetoric, Russian, philosophy of science. Last month Oakland's first 570 freshmen got the shock of their lives: 43% flunked in chemistry, calculus and economics. Nothing like this ever happened at old M.S.U. Says 18-year-old Mike Deller: "It's rough, really rough. But I'm glad. Some day it's going to mean something to say you graduated from here...
Thanks are due the directors for retaining Balthazar's two songs. Russell Oberlin, who is with Alfred Deller one of the world's two finest countertenors (male altos), sings them to perfection...