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...performance marked by a water-clear sense of orchestral relationships and rock-sure control. He attacked at a slower than usual tempo, underscored the sensuous quality of the music without letting his orchestra wallow in it. There were the usual first-night flaws. During the second-act love duet, the word über-mächtig "vanished without trace" from Tenor Wolfgang Windgassen's memory. With a series of semaphore cues that almost sent him clambering on the stage, Sawallisch brought order out of chaos while Soprano Birgit Nilsson improvised for several measures. But the third act went...
...having a lovely voice, is a fine musician, and Thomas Beveridge, who is a true bass and not a warmed-over baritone. Oboist Cynthia Deery played with a fine woody tone, but had a curious way of ending a phrase abruptly. The strings were fine, especially in the final duet, but the high point of the cantata was the accompanied recitative for the two soloists, with daring harmonies and beautiful, sweeping, melodic lines...
...nest, where Yma no longer lives, roughed him up and threatened to shoot him. Next day photographers and reporters were on hand when mink-coated Yma and three private eyes turned up looking for her orchid-and-white Cadillac convertible and a few other trifles. Yma sang a raucous duet in Spanish and English with one of Vivanco's folk dancers, concluding it abruptly with a backhanded slap across the girl's face. Soon, with flashbulbs flaring, a free-for-all, catch-as-catch-can battle was on, characterized by head-bumping, clothes-ripping, hair-pulling and name...
...Symphony in C Minor (Le Midi) began the program. This work, one of the less-often heard of Haydn's symphonies, has an unusual musical structure--one of the movements is marked "recitative," and consists of a dialogue between solo violin and orchestra. There is also an extended duet for solo violin and 'cello, during which the other instruments remain silent. Concertmaster Daniel Musher and 'cellist Sigrid Lemlein played these passages adequately, althought Musher's intonation was sometimes weak and his phrasing lacked clear articulation. Miss Lemlein drew a warm, full tone from her 'cello. The last movement...
Shinbone Alley makes a brave try, and at intermission still has something of a chance. After that, things go rather un-brokenly downhill; and only a few times all evening-as in a charming duet, Flotsam and Jetsam, or some Eartha Kitt touches as mehitabel-is the Don Marquis strain triumphant. A few other times-as in a revue-sketch scene where mehitabel, as a dramatic-school tyro, suddenly gives the hot-jazz treatment to Shakespeare-Shinbone Alley is attractive show business. And Eartha Kitt. with her feline grace and mannered charm, is frequently mehitabelish, and at the worst gives...