Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more clearly defined, the concert band playing the standard band literature and taking a few adventuresome steps, should please bandmen and the public alike; with the wind esemble clearly oriented towards the very serious musician, the community show for the first time, a chance to hear and enjoy the finest music in the band literatur
Sutherland is not necessarily the best singer or the most compelling actress. Her distinction, in an emergent age of great sopranos, lies in a stunning vocal technique that in the last three years has lifted her into the haughty company of the world's finest. Standing there beside her are five singers, whose achievement challenges the memory of some of opera's most hallowed names. The other five: Ma ria Callas, Renata Tebaldi, Eileen Farrell, Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price...
...stage has also witnessed some of the finest triumphs of the other five great sopranos...
...Recently she has had cordial correspondence with the Met's Director Rudolph Bing, who canceled her contract three years ago but who now would gladly take her back. How much of her original accuracy, agility and control Callas retains is uncertain; and the Callas voice, even in its finest days, was never the equal of Sutherland's. Nevertheless, it was Callas who opened up the whole range of classical opera by demonstrating that she could sing anything written for a female performer. Although in a recent recording of Norma, Callas' voice is badly frayed and painfully wobbly...
...this season's Met opener, The Girl of the Golden West. ("You can get into this part," said Price buoyantly, "and swing it around.") The reason, perhaps, is that the girl from Laurel, Miss., can dream her way into the heart of a role as only the finest performers...