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...this country with so pure a voice as Miss Adele Addison. Or so beautifully controlled a voice. When she sings one realizes that, like some great dam, she is withholding tremendous power, and releasing only a pure and limpid rivulet of sound. Last night, Miss Addison sang arias from Handel's somewhat neglected L'Allegro and II Penseroso with the Cambridge Society for Early Music; and sang them as only...
...Handel's L'Allegro and II Penseroso was written only a short time before the Messiah, but the guileless artifice of his musical imitations of Miltonic imagery, and the prankish innocence of its harmonies sound only distantly related to the Christmas oratorio. For this easy good humor, Miss Addison's most musical and least melancholy voice is eminently suited; not once did she encumber the music with leaden emotions foreign to its spirit, or dirty it with less than perfect phrasing and dynamics. Her coloratura in the incomparable "Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly" was remarkable...
...numbers nearly 60 singers-white, Negro, Japanese, Hawaiian and Chinese. Explains pert, pony-tailed Soprano Uta Shimotskuka, 23: "With a good group like this, it was easy to attract many young singers who heard that we preferred Orlando di Lasso, Palestrina and also Faure and Poulenc to the inevitable Handel and Mendelssohn...
...Busch-Reisinger garden concerts next week daily from 1-2 p.m. will be Rameau's Platee; Mozart's Symphony no. 35 ("Haffner"); Schuman's Waldscenen, Respighi's Doric String Quartet and Trittico Botticelliano (last three works related to art); Handel's Water Music; and Brahm's Sextet...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum garden, the schedule of recorded music at 1 p.m. daily, next Monday through Friday, is Handel's Royal fireworks Music, Beethoven's Quartet no. 8, Debussey's Nocturnes (work related to art); Granados' Goyescas (also related to art), Brahms' Two Quintets, and Mozart's Piano Concertos...