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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nevertheless, it provides varied and often quite beautiful settings of the six love poems; however similar their techniques, Lamb is far more willing than Stravinsky to make melodic concessions to his listeners. The New Art Quintet of New York played the wind parts flawlessly, and bass-baritone Paul Matthen sang difficult vocal lines with assurance and tonal beauty...

Author: By Robert M. Simon, | Title: Longy Spring Festival | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...Matthen also offered Rameau's cantata Aquilon et Orithie, a trivial but melodious endorsement of rape as a lover's strategem...

Author: By Robert M. Simon, | Title: Longy Spring Festival | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...Cambridge Quartet include Phyllis Curtin, soprano; Eunice Alberts, contralto; William Hess, tenor; Paul Matthen, bass. All except Mr. Hess are local musicians and have frequently appeared as soloists in Boston. A mediumsized audience responded to the group's superb artistry as well as to its evident enthusiasm in performance by one of the warmest ovations I have witnessed this season in Sanders Theatre...

Author: By Alex Gellry, | Title: The Cambridge Quartet | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...Very Quiet Now, terse expressions of complete resignation. Chanler, formerly a teacher at Longy, has an eclectic style that echoes everyone from Faure to Copland. He excels in simple melodic and harmonic patterns, but when he tries to be more elaborate the outcome is not always successful. Paul Matthen sang with restraint and delicacy, accompanied by the always competent Mr. Tucker...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: Longy's Spring Festival | 4/16/1952 | See Source »

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