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...blow a shrill Tarzan victory call on a siren-whistle that could be mistaken for a hunting horn. He delights in the unexpected. In the middle of a flute solo, he will pop a child's plastic song flute into his right nostril and trill out a brief duet. For a performer who took up the flute only three years ago, Kirk plays it with astonishing virtuosity. He can begin with a slow, throaty, lyrical blues, punctuate the piece with jagged staccato yelps of outrage, and then tap the stops with his fingers like a woodpecker beating...
...middleweight G. and S. with Glibert's jibes at Gothic melodrama complemented by some wonderfully quasi-Wagnerian effects by Sullivan. Purists might object to Director Robert Gibson's use of the shorter and weaker of the two second act finales extant and to his omission of the charming duet, "The Battle's Roar Is Over," but by any standards the production is a success...
...since then; Frager won the Leventritt and Queen Elisabeth competitions; Ashkenazy tied for first in Russia's Tchaikovsky contest. But their letters have dwelt on one remaining ambition: a two-piano recital. This spring Frager went to Russia for a concert tour, and last week the long-planned duet with Ashkenazy finally took place...
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...
Provocative Fact. The eleven played a difficult repertory that tested all their talents-the overture of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Chopin's Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, a recitative and duet for tenor and soprano from Mozart's Don Giovanni. Then, as a harrowing surprise treat, each was given the score to Tadeusz Baird's Czetry Eseje-a contemporary work none of them had seen before-and told to be on the podium in four minutes, ready to conduct. Six survived. Said Chief Judge Bernstein darkly: ''One provocative fact: there...