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Inclusion of a solo cantata in Sunday's program provided excellent contrast to the choral sound. Above all, Rameau's Le Berger Fidele requires style to sustain the text's nonsense. Fortunately the soloist was Jean Lunn, whose lovely voice is not yet tired from a heavy concert schedule. Her phrasing, diction, and impeccable vocal ornamentation placed the cantata's fluffiness in a proper musical perspective...
Married. Mary Elizabeth Altemus ("Liz") Whitney Person, 48, socialite horsewoman; and Richard Lunn, 40, public-relations man; she for the third time (her first: Millionaire Horseman John Hay ["Jock"] Whitney), he for the second; in Washington...
John Davison's Four Songs to Poems by George Herbert might have made a better impression had they been transposed. Although Jean Lunn '55 had sung Father Woollen's songs well, the Davison selections lay mostly in her weak upper-middle range; breathy tone lent little conviction to his spare melodic lines...
Soprano Jean Lunn, who in addition to singing in the Schuetz and Bach performed a solo cantata by Tunder, was in wonderful form. I have never more admired the agility of her voice and the intelligence of her musicianship. Robert Gartside created a striking effect with his accomplished tenor but he could have shown more restraint is the ensembles. The other soloists, Anne Talbot, Robert Simon, and Bernard Barbeau, were of equally high caliber...
Soloists include Joan Lunn '55, Robert Gartside 2G, Robert M. Simon '55, plus the chorus and orchestra of the Harvard Music Club, conducted by Howard Brown...