Word: gildas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will give its final concert of the year at 8:30 p.m. tonight at Sanders Theatre. Russell Stanger, recently reappointed to conduct next year, will direct the Orchestra in the featured work, Shotsakovich's Ninth Symphony. Gilda Hoffman. Radcliffe '51, will solo in the Mozart Plano Concerto, No. 20 in D Minor K446. Miss Hoffman won the contest sponsored earlier this year by the Pierian Sodality and judged by Walter Piston, professor of Music...
...Gilda Hoffman '54 will be soloist with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in its spring concert on May 15. The 18-year-old Saville House pianist won the role with her playing of a Mozart concerto in Paine Hall last Thursday during a special competition sponsored by the Pierian Sodality Orchestra...
Maid for Figaro. She turned from the girlish Gilda to the worldly Rosalinda in Fledermaus, and brought that role, until then one of the weakest in the Met's comic hit, up to par or better. As the saucy Musetta in La Bohème, she was gay in her waltz song, movingly sympathetic with the dying Mimi in the last act. Last week she sang her first Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. Her tone, as ever, was as pure and clear as a mountain stream; her coloratura was as neat as needlepoint. A singing actress who loves...
Ronald Roseman's oboe playing in Hindemith's Sonata for Oboe and Piano was the best in months. His flawless technique and intelligent phrasing made the Sonata sound perhaps even better than it is. Gilda Hoffman's handling of the tricky piano parts was more than adequate...
...Tree Grows in Brooklyn, "because I didn't want to scrub floors for a year." * Nonmusicians define a coloratura voice as one that plays musical chairs among all the right notes without ever sitting down. * Marion Talley was five months younger when she made her debut as Gilda...