Word: mezzos
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...wood winds sound ragged, he stops the players, explains to the culprit that he has been playing piano instead of mezzo forte, achieves on the next try a precise, organlike tone. If the first violins are a hair short of unity, he singles out the lagging fiddler, points out that an improperly held bow is causing his late entrances, illustrates by drawing his baton across his left...
...perils of opera singing struck again: in an outdoor production of Carmen at Chicago's Soldier Field, Tenor Jan Kiepura spurned Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout so thoroughly that he knocked her cold against the stage floor. Carried off and revived, she finished the show with a banged-up forehead...
Because of the human voice's limited range and flexibility, Haussermann decided to lay most stress on variety of color. In one of the four movements the voice is used in a hushed, introspective mezzo voce; in another, in light coloratura vein. There are runs, trills, even a cadenza. Commented Conductor Goossens...
Verdi: Requiem Mass (Soprano Maria Camgha, Mezzo-Soprano Ebe Stignani, Tenor Beniamino Gigli, Basso Ezio Pinza' with the Rome Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Tullio Serafin conducting-Victor: 20 sides; $10.50). No ardent Catholic Verdi wrote this Requiem for the anniversary of the death of his friend, Italy's Poet Alessandro Manzoni. The Requiem's melting arias, its thumping drums of doom and trumps of wrath have been damned as operatic. In this recent recording of the Mass, Basso Pinza and the chorus sing superbly, Tenor Gigli sounds prosciutto (Italian ham), Maestro Serafin conducts with shattering intensity...
...girl of the Last Chance saloon, turns in her best performance since the somewhat similar role in The Blue Angel brought her to Hollywood. To the thrilling question-could Dietrich come back via the western trail?-her bottle-tossing, eye-rolling and shoulder-shrugging, her singing (in a whiskey mezzo) of Little Joe and The Boys in the Backroom supplied the answer. Dietrich has. She makes it dazzlingly clear that the Dietrich legs, once more unsheathed, will still be taking her places...