Word: gounod
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...that "the idea of objectivity is Utopian. Can the music of any composer maintain its integrity after passing through the living complex-sanguine or phlegmatic-of this or that interpreter?" But at the same time an artist must not go out of bounds, warns Landowska, reminded of the time Gounod had to chide his wife at a funeral: "Be careful; do not cry louder than the widow...
...Giovanni at the top of her voice. The other reigning sopranos in this international exposition are Sweden's Birgit Nilsson singing Beethoven, France's Regine Crespin singing Wagner, Germany's Elisabeth Schwarzkopf singing Mozart, and Spain's Victoria de los Angeles singing Verdi and Gounod...
...Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Highlights from Gounod's Romeo and Juliet, with Roberta Peters, Nicolai Gedda, William Walker...
...this age of slenderized divas, Mme. Crespin remains a satisfyingly ample woman, and on Thursday night she managed with absolutely devastating aplomb the enormous piece of green satin which for some reason was draped about her shoulders. Equally devastating was the brilliant high B (at the end of Gounod's "O my lyre immortelle") which brought the scheduled part of the concert to a close with the expected volley of applause. Then, as if just to show us she could do it. Mme. Crespin sang as an encore a Poulenc trifle which was all wit and elegance...
Dandin, while not one of Moliere's crowning achievements like Doin Juan and Tartuffe, is still a masterpiece of its own kind. Betterton, the foremost English actor of the Restoration, thought is worth translating as a vehicle for himself; and Gounod was going to make an opera...