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Died. Ethel Barrymore Colt, 65, actress-singer daughter of Ethel Barrymore; of cancer; in Manhattan. Carrying the theatrical tradition of the House of Barrymore into the ninth generation, Colt made her acting debut at 18 performing alongside her mother in Scarlet Sister Mary. A lyric soprano, she later sang in concerts, nightclubs and with several opera companies, including the New York City Opera. She toured Europe with her one-woman revue of musical theater and returned to Broadway in Harold Prince's production of Follies...
...amalgam of these categories brought Turgenev his widest recognition. Enraptured by the Spanish singer, he reached back for lyric memories of his rural Russian youth. The Sportsman's Sketches provides a landscape with figures-peasants and hunters who wander in a remote and somehow doomed pastorale. The book was to become a profound influence on Hemingway, and Poet Randall Jarrell called its evocations of the countryside "the best of all possible worlds." Pritchett agrees. "There are two masters of seeing in Russian literature," he observes. "Tolstoy sees exactly as if he were an animal or a bird: and what...
...even within his own specialty, of lyric singing, Pavarotti cannot match many of hs predecessors. For all its ease, the voice simply does not have the sheer beauty of a Gigli or a Caruso or a Tagliavini. These were "golden voices"; the sound was not light and thin, but light and full, with richness and texture to the sounds they produced; they soothed and caressed your ears. Pavarotti's voice is pretty, but not as startlingly beautiful...
Withal, I do recognize that Pavarotti has done a lot for Opera's popularity, if little for its standards of excellence. And Mr. Pavarotti certainly stands out as the leading lyric tenor on the contemporary scene, a veritable giant among his peers--though still a weak rival to his predecessors."Dogma has no place in art. Politics and religions seem to satisfy man's need for pigheadedness. But there is similarly no need to be pigheaded in favor of Pavarotti's voice...
...quite frank with you. I really tried for a snappy, clever lead this week. First I thought empathy was the angle, and I ended up with "OhgodgodgodgodPeteSeegergodfivepapersgodfivepapersgodfivepapersohgodgodgod...," which I found reminiscent of the Grove Press|edition of Rupert Murdoch's|autobiography. Then I went for the|lighthearted and lyric. I rang...