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...years ago, pretty Contralto Kathleen Ferrier had made a name for herself at Britain's Glyndebourne Opera Festival -and the name was Orfeo. Last week, after her first U.S. performance of Gluck's 187-year-old, seldom heard opera Orfeo ed Euridice, Manhattan operagoers understood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: English Orfeo | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...Town Hall, Contralto Ferrier had no topnotch Glyndebourne production behind her, although she did have a familiar Euridice opposite her: U.S. Soprano Ann Ayars, who had sung the role with her in England and on records.#&134; But Conductor Thomas K. Scherman's Little Orchestra (38 players) and 40 singers from the Westminster Choir got into the graceful spirit of Gluck's music with the overture, and stayed in it to the last gaily triumphant note. It was, however, the dramatically restrained passion of Kathleen Ferrier's singing, in a voice that is even and full through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: English Orfeo | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. Soloists: Kathleen Ferrier, Set Svanholm. Conductor: Bruno Walter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...FERRIER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1938 | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...Manhattan show of the Empire Cat Club, the Siamese Cat Society of America, and the American Mouse Fanciers' Club, cats, mice and rats were reduced to an uncomfortable common denominator. To naive news reporters who supposed the show would be a one-sided Saturnalian feast, Rev. R. W. Ferrier of Stockport, N. Y., moving spirit of the Mouse Fanciers, boasted: "The rats and mice in this show aren't nervous, as you sentimentally suppose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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