Word: mezzos
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...Boston Symphony Orchestra--with Seiji Ozawa, conducter, and Janis Taylor, mezzo-soprano, performs Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 and Prokofiev's "Alexander Nevsky." At the Boston Symphony Hall at 2 p.m. on Friday and 8 p.m. on Saturday...
...long careers, and their voices still have the glow that sells out major opera houses. Other voices, once equally remarkable, do not retain their beauty, whether because of physical setbacks or misuse. Marilyn Horne, 57, has lost none of her taste or technique, but the nap is off that mezzo velvet. Hildegard Behrens, 54, an inspired dramatic actress, is now far easier to look at than listen to in the arduous roles she favors. A dozen years ago, handsome Peter Hofmann, 46, was a Wagnerian's dream of a heldentenor; today he mostly sings...
BERLIOZ: LES NUITS D'ETE; MAHLER: SONGS (Bridge). The great mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani's last recording renders almost palpable the feelings of yearning and fleeting gaiety, along with the elegiac beauty, that make these songs, and her art, imperishable...
...example, and what have been called "the song jewelers": Gershwin, Kern, Berlin. "I liked this music. It satisfied something." He also discovered ragtime and helped spearhead its revival in the 1970s with a nonchalantly elegant recording of rags by Joplin, Lamb, Scott and himself. More important, he discovered mezzo-soprano Joan Morris and began accompanying her around the country in dear old ditties like Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May? They married in 1975, and still give nearly 50 concerts a year. "Performing this stuff with Joan had an enormous influence on my music," Bolcom...
Jerome Kern: Show Boat (Angel/EMI, 1988). With a cast that boasted the likes of mezzo Frederica von Stade, the landmark American musical was revealed for what it is: a landmark American opera as well...