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Bach. Listeners who favor the "purist" approach to Bach will do well to hear Lenora Stein's all-Bach program at Memorial Church. The Fisk organ is well-suited to such an enterprise...
Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia (June ig-Sept. 30): a young (five-year-old) bidder for the tourist trade, featuring Yugoslav music in a Riviera-style setting. Among the guest artists: American Negro Soprano Lenora Lafayette and a Smith College choir, plus ballet and folk-music groups...
Shirley Barger, Helen Scott Bennett, Dorothea Bourne, Amelia Riddick Brent, Ruth Brine, Marjorie Burns, Peggy Bushong, Nancy McD. Chase, Bertha Cordeiro! Lilian Davidson, Estelle Dembeck, Lois Dickert, Anne Dirkes, Kathleen Donahue, Joan Dye, Kathryn Egan, Marta Erdman, Lenora Ersner, Jane Farley, Marcelle Farrington, Dorothy Ferenbaugh, Blanche Finn, Rosemary L. Frank, Mary Elizabeth Fremd, Judith Friedberg, Marcia Gauger, Marie Kathryn Gibbons, Jean Gutheim, Dorothy Slavin Haysteafl, Harriet Heck, Robin Hinsdale, Bonnie Claire Howells, Vera Kovarsky, E. Eleanore Larsen, Sylvia Crane Myers, Helen Newlin, Amelia North, Mary Baylor Reinhart, Margaret Rorison, Deirdre Mead Ryan, Jane Darby Scholl, Ruth Silva, M. Ava Smith...
Covent Garden gave Lenora an enthusiastic welcome, and the applause at the end was not just for a brave try. Lenora had stage presence, and her voice reached to the farthest tiers of the opera house. Since it was not a first-night performance, few critics were on hand. But the Daily Express' Cecil Smith, often a carper, came and was conquered. Wrote Smith: a voice of "exceptional beauty and vitality...
...Lenora Lafayette would like to crash the U.S. musical world as a lieder singer after another year in Europe. "Opera," she says, "is so limited...