Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less, during a matinee of Lucia di Lammermoor which was broad cast from coast to coast. Often Callas sang superbly, notably in the famous mad scene, but sometimes she sounded as shrill as static, and during her second-act duet with Baritone Enzo Sordello she dropped her highest note like a hot knife, while Baritone Sordello held his. What happened next could be the script for a third-rate opera buff...
...Sordello tells it, Callas grabbed him and whispered loudly: "Don't hold that note!" He held on for dear life. In the in termission. Callas told him: "You will never sing with me again." Then she canceled her next performance of Lucia, to put pressure on Manager Rudolf Bing to fire Sordello-or so Sordello says. Her failure to appear in Lucia caused a near riot of disappointed ticket holders who had to be quieted by the cops. And two days later, Sordello got a registered letter from Manager Bing dismissing him from the Met. "Miss Callas," Sordello summed...
Callas agrees that Sordello did indeed hold the high note, and that during intermission she told him "it wasn't a nice thing to do." To which, said Diva Callas, he replied: " I am going to kill you'-meaning vocally, of course." She did not even mention the matter to Manager Bing, and canceled her performance because of a throat irritation. Harassed Manager Bing, firmly siding with Diva Callas, said Sordello had been fired solely because he had added extra embellishments and showy high notes to his part in Lucia, and, when reprimanded, had been "impertinent" to Conductor...
...last week, as he neared the end of his studies for a degree in dairy husbandry. Falk, now 21, figured he would have about $30,000 to buy a farm for himself and his bride, Coed Arlene Plotkin of Milwaukee. The only sour note in his academic career: the near-failing he received in a course on real estate...
Ending the concert on a nice light-hearted note, Miss Smith sang Nor-man Shapiro's Songs from the Animal Kingdon; the texts are among the wittiest of Ogden Nash's poems. It is worthwhile following the career of Sarah Jane Smith; she is already very good, and she gets better all the time...