Word: mezzos
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...mezzo forte for the double reeds instead of piano because I didn't want to get that fuzzy sound which so often comes when they try to play piano" (Indignant gasps from the woodwind players, who would toss in their union cards before playing a fuzzy sound...
...Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, starring Met Mezzo-Soprano Rise Stevens as Orpheus...
...Stravinsky's 1927 opera-oratorio, Oedipus Rex, preceded by Ernst Krenek's three Medea monologues, sung by the Met's Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom...
Conductor Hugh Ross turned to the Tanglewood Choir and gave an incisive downbeat. Moderate, mezzo forte crescendo, basses and then tenors intoned the first portentous words: "Who must file." Sixty young voices joined in the first performance of a modern madrigal called Lament for April 75. Its lyrics: excerpts from the U.S. income-tax instructions...
...content with their temple choir on other holy days. This year, because they could not afford both a cantor and a badly needed new organ.* they decided to buy the organ. But during choir practice recently, temple trustees were struck by a soloist who had not only a rich mezzo-soprano, but a sound knowledge of Hebrew language and ritual. Last week they decided that Mrs. Betty Robbins, an attractive, 31-year-old Massapequa housewife, should be their cantor for Rosh Hashanah. With that decision, they swept away 5,000 years of Jewish tradition...