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...between Nathan and his fiancee of fourteen years, Miss Adelaide (Joann Beckson). Miss Beckson is outstanding, bringing to the role all of the necessary chintziness and gum-cracking, charm, coupled with a comic flair and a powerful voice. Her rendition of "Adelaide's Lament" is delightful, as is her duet with Nathan...
...Troyens' music is at once delicately concentrated and surcharged with an agitato inner flame. It is as short-winded as Mozart and as elongated as Wagner; rarely does Berlioz repeat himself, yet he spins out one duet (Cassandra and her lover Coroebus) for 15 minutes. Never a piker in such matters, Berlioz made heroic stage demands that included hunters on horseback, ships sailing out of a harbor, a stream that turns into a "roaring waterfall" and, of course, a large wooden horse...
...gave intelligent emphasis to the text; were his range a tenor's, he would make an admirable Evangelist for the Passion settings. Ronald Coons, singing the tenor recitative, fared badly in comparison where his vibrato obscured his diction. He was much better, joined by alto Paula Shepard, in the duet which was the climax of the piece...
...shame that Carl Schlaikjer did not receive credit in the program listings for his oboe d'amore playing. It was a display of virtuoso caliber remarkable for its sensitivity of phrase and quality of tone. The instrument's sound filled the church in beautiful counterpoint to the alto-tenor duet...
TREVOR VEITCH AND ANDY KULBERG. I've yet to hear this promising duet whose musical experience alone should earn them a receptive audience. Veitch played sideman to Tom Rush for five years, and Kulberg is a veteran of both the Blues Project and Seatrain. They played to good crowds at Passim over the summer, and a return invitation so soon augers well for the future...