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...opera stardom; of heart failure; in Modena, Italy. He debuted at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in 1965 as Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust and went on to such signature roles as King Philip in Verdi's Don Carlo and the title role in Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov...
...great and the near-great, and also the not-so-great. Yes, Diller is one of that special corps of performers so essential to every opera--the extras. For what would the French revolution be without an angry peasant mob? Who will hold back the crowd in Boris Godounov when it surges to crown him king? For that Matter, who will do the surging? The extras, the unsung--and unsinging--mainstays of any operatic performance. And Harvard junior Matthew Diller, for five years as an extra himself, saw it all. This is his story...
After opening with C. E. Duble's Bravura concert march, a piece which was ideally suited to demonstrate the excellence of the band's brasses, Walker attempted a reading of three selections from Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov. The march had excited the audience, the band's Boris immediately let them down. Exposed woodwind passages were occasionally sloppy, intonation in the cornets wavered, and the pace dragged. Variations on a Shaker Melody by Copland was marred by dissonances Copland never intended, and the first half of the program ended somewhat dully with Rimsky-Korsakov's Procession of Nobles, despite displays...
...joint performance with the Harvard Glee Club in Washington's Constitution Hall on April 3 will climax the trip, Delbanco said. More than 3000 Washingtonians are expected to hear the groups' presentation of such works as the Coronation Scene from Boris Godounov...
Much, however, as the audience (and I suspect, the singers) might have enjoyed an evening of football songs, there was other music on the program, and some of it was much worth remembering. I am thinking, in particular, of the Coronation Scene from Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov, sung by both clubs together. Any chorus of two hundred massed on a stage tends to be impressive, no matter what is sung. But the Moussorgsky was more than impressive; it was a triumph of high spirit and high decibels. The accompanists, playing what sounded like a two-piano arrangement of the massive...