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...only bright spot for Bentsen was his easy victory over a vigorous challenger in the concurrent race for the Senate nomination, getting 63 per cent of the vote. The challenge came from Phil Gramm, a conservative economics professor at Texas A&M, whose attacks focused on Bentsen's supposed neglect of the Lone Star state in his presidential bid. One TV ad featured two disembodied voices, one of which asked what Bentsen had to show for his six years in the Senate. The other mentioned Bentsen's vote to expand the Voting Rights Act, his support for federal...
Caldwell can shriek at the chorus, growl at the stagehands, spit fire at a careless secondary singer, but usually will serve sweet honey to her soloists. She solicits their advice and often takes it. During rehearsals for Barber, Bass-Baritone Donald Gramm said that it might be fun if the glass in his hand broke as Sills hit a high C in the lesson scene. Caldwell loved the idea and put it in. "As both conductor "and director, I am very much aware that it is those people up there doing it onstage," she says. "I can help them...
...could be scoring musicological points by dredging up, say, Cornelius' The Barber of Baghdad! She is doing what any savvy impresario would do-playing to her strength. When a loyal Caldwellite like Beverly Sills is willing to sing her first Rosina, and that master of operatic disguise Donald Gramm is equally eager to sing Bartolo, the savvy thing to do is put on The Barber of Seville...
...spired others. But there was no denying the touch of a master in Jakobsleiter's expressionistic orchestral colors and its delicate, wispy, half-song half-speech. Neil Peter Jampolis' silver-staired setting, Robert Baustian's serene conducting and, among the fine cast, Bass-Baritone Donald Gramm's deep, firm-voiced Gabriel only added to the success of the occasion...
...built"). Everything worked, especially Caldwell's master stroke of costuming Moses and Aron identically, often pivoting them back to back to underscore the central conflict between the spiritual and material sides of man. A few patrons found the orgy scenes too shocking and tromped out; but Lewis and Gramm performed magnificently, and the orchestra played the thunderous, jaggedly atonal score to perfection. All in all, the production was further proof of the Boston Opera's growing reputation as the most inventive and adventuresome opera company in the entire...