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...first of a series of Summer School concerts open to the public, Malama Providakes, mezzo-soprano, and Paul Des Marais '49, pianist, presented a program of songs by Ravel, Brahms, Debussy, Faure, and de Falla at Paine Hall on Tuesday...
Miss Providakes has a rich and well placed voice, full throughout its range, and what is more important, she knows how to use it to best effect. In the Ravel and de Falla songs the voice was full-throated and sensuous. Where the music seemed to indicate some degree of brittleness and harshness the tone was drawn out to wire tautness. Debussy's "Trois Chansons de Bilitis," the best job of collaboration of the evening, were done with great delicacy and warmth. The result here and in a group by Faure was a fine sense of communication to the audience...
Symphony tonight will include Beethoven's Overture to Collin's drama "Coriolan," dances from "The Three Cornered Hat" by Falla (not to be confused with ecstatic Eleanor's Fellas), Dvorak's violin concerto in B minor, and Bohuslav Martinu's Sixth Symphony, which gets its premiere. Leonard Rose, soloist...
...likes the musical melting pot that characterizes the U.S. "In Europe one hears a great deal of national music. But here! Everyone knows Wagner and Brahms, Debussy and Ravel, Vivaldi and Resphigi, Falla and Tchaikovsky, and a conductor of a major orchestra has to be able to do the whole...
...romantic performers in the spectacular tradition of Liszt and Anton Rubinstein* had set himself a schedule of no less than 17 major works in a series of five concerts in 13 days-all the concertos of Beethoven and Brahms, plus ten works by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Liszt, Chopin, Falla, Franck and Schumann...