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...Montreal-born Maureen Forrester, the performance was one more demonstration that she now stands in the front rank of contraltos-although it is only nine years since she walked fresh from a church choir to the studio of her teacher, Dutch Lieder Singer Bernard Diamant, who told her, "You don't know how to sing." Having worked hard with Diamant, she gol her big break in 1957 when Walter hired her for one of the solo parts in Mahler's Second Symphony with the Philharmonic Although she sings some contemporary works, she prefers the songs of Hugo Wolf...
...podium was 83-year-old Bruno Walter, who learned the works of Gustav Mahler from the composer himself. Standing beside him was a singer scarcely more than a third his age-Maureen Forrester, 29, the contralto whose big-time career was launched under Walter's baton. With the forces of the New York Philharmonic last week, Conductor Walter and Contralto Forrester gave Carnegie Hall audiences an unforgettable performance of one of Mahler's greatest works, Das Lied von der Erde, whose premiere Walter conducted in Munich half a century...
Toys in the Attic. In one of Broadway's rare original plays, Lillian (The Little Foxes) Hellman once more proves herself both craftsman and writer, powerfully examines a weak ne'er-do-well (Jason Robards Jr.) and his maiden sisters (Anne Revere, Maureen Stapleton...
Arthur Penn has staged the play admirably. Jason Robards Jr. as Julian, Anne Revere as his older sister and Rochelle Oliver as his wife give solid performances. Maureen Stapleton's conniving sister is full of fascinating detail; as Julian's mother-in-law, a cool, unsentimental woman with a Negro lover, Irene Worth plays with wonderful style...
Toys in the Attic, by Lillian Hellman in a Tennessee Williams vein, had Boston audiences/coughing and ho-humming through a talky first act, but soon caught their attention with enough incest, adultery, miscegenation and fornication to keep a three-toed sloth awake for a month. Starring Maureen Stapleton, Irene Worth and Jason Robards Jr.., it is the first original play in nine years by Dramatist Hellman (The Little Foxes, The Children's Hour). Wrote the Boston Record's Elliot Norton: "She has written wisely, often wittily, and her point of view is provocative. But the basic story seemed...