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...Buttermilk Sky, Hoagy Carmichael (Kapp LP). Even in his rare lyric moments, Singer-Composer Carmichael sounds like a man warbling in a tin shed. In this selection of his songs, mostly from the '40s and '50s, his virtues are manic enthusiasm, an antic rhythmic sense and an endlessly absorbing hobnail accent: "You cain if you tray-a-y/ . . . Ole buttermilk...
...selections will include "Song Cycle, Opus 57," by Brahms; "Song" and "Dirge in Woods," by Copland; "Two Poems of Coventry Patmore," by Milhaud, and "Prose Lyric," by Debussy...
...neither good nor evil nor God nor Devil nor spirit nor matter in distinct separate-ness." Apollinaire's thoughts, attitudes and interests hopped from point to point with anarchic abandon: "Unsolved crimes, papal infallibility, and the new art of the moving picture inspired him equally." Blessed with true lyric talent, Apollinaire nevertheless "felt the need to jumble and rearrange his work in complex patterns." His writing "became a vast radiation of himself in all directions"-an illusion that he intensified by sometimes giving his poems and letters the shapes of circles and fans...
...last week, the postman rang the bell twice-both as to libretto (by Poet Harry Duncan) and music. Composer Hoiby's score was deft, dramatic, highly descriptive, reminiscent of Gian Carlo Menotti, who taught Hoiby at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. The opera had tension as well as lyric elasticity, especially when the postman-lover fell into a charmed sleep by the fire and the wife sang a lilting incantation. With both audience and critics, Composer Hoiby scored a clean hit. Said Rome's daily Il Messaggero: "It is impossible to doubt Hoiby's musical quality...
...enrolled at the Moscow Conservatory, made a name for himself in Soviet music when in 1939 he played the premiere performance of Serge Prokofiev's Sixth Sonata. These days he gives as many as 120 concerts a season in Russia and the satellites. He lives with his wife, Lyric Soprano Nina Dorlyak, in a Moscow apartment whose telephone number he is too absent-minded to remember. When he is in the mood, he may sit for 14 hours a day at the piano, but he is also likely to go for months without practicing. He dislikes recording...