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Another first for concert performance was the Karl Kohn Madrigal (1966). The accompanist was none other than Nils Vigeland who is an excellent pianist. In addition to the modern music, the Chorale sang two short Monteverdi works and the Bach Cantata No. 131. All three were marred by weak soloists, unable to project and unvarying in tone. Still, it would be foolish as well as unkind to chastise the Grad Chorale for their work; one can only hope that in the future their quality will come up to the level of their enthusiasm...
From the Heart. Indeed, when "Momo" made his debut at the age of twelve in a Paris cafe, he was dressed as a peasant. He had the spectators roaring with laughter as he sang three tones above his pianist. From the start to the finish of his singing career, which lasted 71 years, Chevalier never did have much of a voice. "I have always sung," he said himself, "more from the heart than the throat." He learned to come on twinkling and debonair, his r-rolling repertory in droll counterpart to his charming manner and accomplished delivery...
...tape-record their sounds-"truthful witnesses of early musical culture," Curator Emanuel Winternitz calls them-and pipe them into headphones for visitors. To start a series of recitals in the museum's auditorium in which professional musicians will demonstrate the capacities of rare items in the collection, Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski has already played the oldest piano in existence, a 1721 creation by the Florentine Bartolommeo Cristofori...
...When the pianist strikes up the "Butterfly" Etude, the performers appear with wings and antennae. A girl twirls daintily forward through two converging rows of dancers; when the lines part, there she lies-splat-on the stage floor. The pianist, his repertoire and his patience exhausted, suddenly grabs a huge butterfly net and chases the creatures offstage...
...pleasure in his masculinity. One woman told Colman that she felt radiant when her husband looked at her approvingly "as I clambered up the stairs in my new awkward way." But Colman reports the depression that he himself felt after a concert he attended with his pregnant wife. "The pianist and Libby were both creative; I was nothing," he says...