Word: fausts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust (Suzanne Danco, David Poleri, Martial Singher; Harvard and Radcliffe choruses; Boston Symphony conducted by Charles Munch; Victor 3 LPs). The greatest translation into music of Goethe's Faust, this score reaches heights of drama and tenderness undreamed of in Gounod's more popular version. Mephistopheles makes his entrances to portentous, brassy thunderclaps, Marguerite changes from an innocent child to a passionate woman in the toils of love, and Faust himself is almost painfully credible. The "dramatic legend" proved too big-and perhaps too tightly composed-to be a success on stage...
...tour will start on June 20 and conclude on July 10 Tanglewood. In its final concert the Glee Club will sing the Damnation of Faust with the Boston Symphony Orchestra accompanying under the direction of Charles Munch...
Except for Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust, he was long relegated to medium-size basso parts, found it difficult to compete with star foreigners for the leading roles. As a result, he does some shrewd horse-trading, e.g., he still sings the relatively minor parts of Brother Pimen (in Boris) and the Grand Inquisitor (in Don Carlo) in exchange for a share of the bigger parts...
...four Boris bassos, he does not expect to get many chances to sing it. He now wants to try for a Don Giovanni at the Met, and then devote himself to his scheme of monopolizing a role that nobody else specializes in: Boito's version of the Faust legend, Mefistofele...
...Fund's purpose has been to authorize basic studies concerning contemporary goals in education and educational procedures and to encourage experimentation for which no machinery or funds are available at present," Clarence H. Faust, president of the Fund, explained...