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...pathos and feeling rather than pride and firmness. As Tiresias, Bentley Layton had warmth and resonance, too, but made the jagged melodic line too fluid. Lacking great vocal strength, he presented a too apologetic Tiresias. The result of both solos was closer to the personal expressiveness of Carissimi's Jeptha than the square, forthright objectivity of Stravinsky's score...
...program includes two Bach cantatas, two choruses from Handel's Jeptha, and some sacred songs by Sweelinch...
...best part of the program by far was the Quintet and Final Chorus from Handel's Oratorio, "Jeptha." The Chorus, which seemed to improve as the evening were on, sang with precision and expression and each voice part came through clearly. The voices of soloists Joyce Young and Martha Hopkins were notable for their fine tonal quality and good enunciation, and they blended well together...
Married. Emily ("Paddy") Vanderbilt, 19, handsome descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (founder of the New York Central Railroad), daughter of Captain William H. Vanderbilt, U.S.N.R. (ex-Governor of Rhode Island); and Jeptha Homer Wade III, 20, fellow senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, descendant and namesake of a founder of Western Union; in Portsmouth...
...program will include Handel's "Welcome as the Cheerful Light from Jeptha" and "Hallelejah, Amen"; "Good News from Heaven" and "Gavote and Muselk"; Beethoven's "Prometheus Overture"; Purcell's "Andante"; Dargomyzhski's "Chorus from Rogdana"; a French Carol, "Ding, Dong Merrily on High"; "The Birch in the Meadow," a Russian folk song; the American folk Song, "Come All ye Fain and Gentle Ladies"; and the English Carol, "The Twelve Days of Christmas...