Word: mezzo-soprano
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Magnetized Talents. Dedicated musicianship of Dunn's caliber attracts talent like a magnet. The warm contralto of the Metropolitan Opera's Lili Chookasian, the glowing mezzo-soprano of Negro Betty Allen, and the responsive, impeccable bowing of Dunn's small string sections all brightened last week's performance of Britten's Rape of Lucretia. Such artists have taught critics and audiences alike that whatever Thomas Dunn tackles musically will be worth doing and done memorably well...
Sheherazade (Columbia) is a passionate performance of Maurice Ravel's coldly exciting music, with Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel sharing the enthusiasm built behind her by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. Berlioz' Cléopátre, on the other side, is less remarkable music...
...Gary, Ind., where his father was fire chief. But after a year in the Roxy Theater chorus (four shows a day for 291 days running), some brief bad luck on Broadway, and a distant whiff of glory at the Met, he was wholly devoted to opera. He and his mezzo-soprano wife, Sandra Warfield. moved off to Bonn for a year, then to Milan for two, in search of the experience the Met had denied him. Europeans were quick to recognize the value of McCracken's voice, but though he sounded just right for lyric romantic roles, his size...
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Martha Lipton, mezzo-soprano; the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Columbia, two LPs). A radiant reading by Bernstein of Mahler's mammoth, six-movement "musical poem...
...fairness to Miss Berganza, it must be said that she did her best work of the evening with these songs. She has a fresh and lovely Mezzo-soprano, bright in color and quite brilliant at the top, though without the excitingly "chesty" low notes that are the stock-in-trade of so many mezzos. Her singing of the Spanish group was of course expert--all done with lovely tone, the right moods struck and the vocal difficulties encompassed. Yet there was none of that real vibrance and passion which alone can make these songs engaging, none of the personal excitement...