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Battle's range spans two and a half octaves, from a low A to a high E. Her voice has a color and flexibility that allow her to go beyond soubrette roles to encompass the death-defying coloratura declamations of Handel's Semele, or dramatically richer lyric parts like Melisande in Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande, which she is now studying. That radiant sound emerges from a 5-ft. 3-in., 120-lb. frame like Athena leaving the head of Zeus: pure and full blown, and shimmering like celestial chimes. "Her voice is remarkably beautiful," says Met Music Director James...
...administration's careless and extravagant use of funds is inexcusable. David S. Cohen '88 Frederick R. Davis '88 Zev J. Handel '88 Stuart M. Semmel...
...mortal. When Peter Sellars, 27, was named director of the new American National Theater at Washington's Kennedy Center last June, his appointment was greeted with both shock and greedy anticipation. This was, after all, the Harvard prodigy who had made his name with audacious updatings of Shakespeare, transplanted Handel's opera Orlando to Cape Canaveral and spiced up Maxim Gorky's 1904 play Summerfolk with songs by George Gershwin. Yet his first offering at Kennedy Center, a production of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I directed by Timothy Mayer, was shocking only in its conventionality. So acute...
...scale beyond the University, Jameson N. Marvin, director of choral activities at Harvard, said Bach's birthday is receiving more attention than Handel's because "the level of Bach's genius as a composer is so constant, and there are such pinnacle works in all categories, where as Handel only has them...
...time. "If you look at Bach's obituary notice in 1750, they praised him as the greatest organist and clavier player of all times, but they had very little understanding of him as a composer," Wolff explained. Marvin added that in Bach's time, other composers, like Handel and Telemann were more acclaimed...