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Copland's settings for twelve poems of Emily Dickinson were especially enjoyable because they were sung by Katherine Hansel, one of the finest vocalists to appear in Cambridge in months. A soprano, her wide range made her sound at home even in the lowest alto registers. She has a surety of pitch that enables her to make skips of as much as two octaves without noticeable effort. Add to this her spacious tone and fine powers of interpretation, and the result is a singer who would make even bad music sound good...
Freshmen Idler members are presenting "Hansel and Gretel" for Cambridge school children November 15. Danielle G. Holmgren and Wendy M. Robertson have the lead roles...
Composer Wickham had rounded up some old friends, retired Met Bass Léon Rothier and the Met's veteran Hansel and Gretel witch, Dorothee Manski, and some new stars, including Soprano Evelyn (The Medium) Keller, to help put her Hex over. Unhappily, she had failed to decide exactly what kind of music they should all sing. To many a mystified listener, Hex sounded like Faust one moment, Friml's Rose Marie another...
...began for him in Dessau, Germany. Townspeople soon knew that the little boy, whose huge eyes and rudimentary physique gave him somewhat the look of a tadpole, was already composing music. At 13, he wrote his first opera. At 18, he went to Berlin to study with Engelbert Humperdinck (Hansel and Gretel), that same year became conductor of the opera at the small town of Lüdenscheid...
John Jay McCloy, new U.S. high commissioner of Germany, had to reshape his plans for a leisurely trip to his new post. John Jr., 11, and Ellen, nearly 8, insisted on taking along the family pets (Hansel, a canary, Judy, a boxer, and Punchy, a beagle). But Britain's six-month rabies quarantine presented a problem. Diplomat McCloy decided to send the wife and kids and Hansel on to Britain by boat. To avoid the British quarantine, he would fly nonstop from the U.S. to Germany himself, personally escorting Punchy and Judy direct to their new home...