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...Chester, Pa., the incomparable Clamma learned to play the cello, clarinet, piano, saxophone and guitar guided by her father, an oil-refinery worker and part-time jazz musician. Before winning a Naumburg Foundation Award and a contract with the New York City Opera Company a year ago, Clamma, a Juilliard graduate, taught music and the poetry of Goethe and Schiller to prisoners on New York's Riker's Island. She hopes to play such operatic rolls as Margherita in Mefistofele and straight dramatic parts like Nora in A Doll's House...
...Vivian Reed, a sizzling, sinuous singer-actress-clown-tap dancer, alone turns Bubbling Brown Sugar into a mousse to remember. She was singing gospel at churches around her native Pittsburgh by the age of eight, and studied classical music at the Pittsburgh Musical Institute before winning a three-year Juilliard scholarship. "I had aspirations of going to the Met and being Leontyne Price," she recalls, "but I switched to popular music and blues because it gave greater freedom of expression and I liked the audience." A veteran of the resort and supper-club circuit, she has a new album. Brown...
...bass in the orchestra at Indiana University. She was also a junior golf champion and a wartime civilian flying instructor for the Navy. When she graduated from college in 1947, one of her teachers warned her that orchestra conducting was a male preserve, and so she went to the Juilliard School to study choral conducting with Robert Shaw, now music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Shaw soon named her assistant conductor of his Collegiate Chorale. In 1952 Hillis made her professional conducting debut leading her own chorus. Jobs followed with New York City, Santa Fe and NBC operas...
...music makes the same demands on singers as does any other opera, Houston has assembled two sets of soloists to alternate the roles of Porgy, Bess and Serena. Both are fine, but it is the first-night cast that will be especially remembered. Tall, willowy, insinuating Clamma Dale, a Juilliard School graduate who made her debut with the New York City Opera last fall, is a marvelous Bess. At 28 she has a luscious soprano voice that has a little bit of the young Leontyne Price in it and soon ought to be just right for Verdi and Puccini...
...piano prodigy of ten, Levine played the Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Cincinnati Symphony. When it came time for a reward from his delighted parents, the answer was quick: "I want to go to New York and to the Metropolitan Opera." Later, as a student at the Juilliard School he could usually be found at the opera three times a week. Speaking metaphorically, as he often does, Levine says: "I know what the Met can do when all its lights are on. I mean, I grew up in that house...