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Mozart's Grand Mass in C-minor; Mary Sindonl, soprano, Beverly Morgan, mezzo-soprano, Frank Hoffmeister, tenor, David Evitts, bass, Harvard Glee Club, Smith Glee Club, HRO, F. John Adams, conductor; Mozart's Clarinet Quintet; David Kass, clarinet, Lynn Chang, violin, Kypros Markou, violin, William Eilberg, viola, and Craig Hogan, cello; Sanders Theater...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: MUSIC | 2/20/1975 | See Source »

...performance was led adroitly by the veteran conductor Leonard de Paur, who first gained fame in the 1940s as leader of the De Paur Infantry Chorus. The women-Dramatic Soprano Juanita Waller (Aurore) of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Mezzo Barbara Conrad (Clothilde) of Pittsburg, Texas-provided most of the vocal excitement. Waller has a pearl-luscious voice, and her time along the European operatic trail (Bremen, Düsseldorf, Naples) has obviously been well spent. Conrad, that rare operatic find, a truly sexy mezzo, scored her biggest success to date last spring singing Carmen at the Houston Spring Opera Festival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in Mississippi | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

Take your pick--choral, orchestral, recital or ensemble concerts this weekend? Keep these in mind: the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum concert in its first performance of the year; the Bach Society concert featuring mezzo-soprano Mary Frances Lubahn, the lead in last spring's Ariadne, and Hugh Wolff playing Beethoven's 3rd; and Yo-Yo Ma's cello recitals at Kirkland and Adams Houses...

Author: By Karen Hsiao, | Title: MUSIC | 11/14/1974 | See Source »

...Daughter of the Regiment stands somewhere in that middle ground. In the Wolf Trap production, which has a splendid supporting cast (notably Tenor William McDonald, Bass Spiro Malas, Mezzo Muriel Costa-Greenspun) and is crisply conducted by Charles Wendelken-Wilson, Sills plays Maria, a lowly orphan girl who has been adopted and reared by a regiment of Napoleon's soldiers in the Austrian Tyrol. The love of her life, Tonio, a young peasant who wears short pants and sings a high C at any sign of affection, joins the troop to be near her-alas, just as Marie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sills Takes to the Tube | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

...five-minute protest, Starker remarked, "Seldom have I been so rudely interrupted. Perhaps this indicates that Harvard needs a concert hall." That conclusion is indisputable, in light of the radiator interruption and the police sirens and car horns which consistently violated passages played at or below the mezzo-piano level...

Author: By Charlie Shepard, | Title: The Two Faces of Janos | 11/7/1973 | See Source »

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