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...doing he combined the worst of both alternatives. Bass David Ripley kept the audience informed with bits of plot summary between musical numbers. Fidelio's typical rescue-opera plot was ridiculous distilled into narrative prose and recited with a straight face. Furthermore, Hathaway had his soloists marching on and off stage, simulating the enrtances and exits of a stage performance. These movements were ill-planned, ill-timed and meaningless...
Hathaway's soloists were a mixed bag. Tenor James Olesen executed his brief role passionately and with excellent German enunciation. Sharon King as Marcellene was controlled on pitch but was easily overpowered by any of the other soloists. Freshman phenomenon David Ripley acquitted the part of Don Fernando valiantly but seemed to be worrying too much about getting all the notes to do anything with them. Gregory Sandow as Rocco was well, embarrassing. Sandow is one of those rare examples of a ham with stage fright. His singing is at once precious and stiff. His main problem is that...
...Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and the University Choir. The modest orchestra da chiesa contained some of Harvard's most respected undergraduate musicians. Of the four soloists, soprano Carlotta Wilsen conducts the Radcliffe Freshmen Chorus, tenor Henry Gibbons is the music tutor of Lowell House, and bass David Ripley is a freshman. Adams thus refuted the current contention that a major choral-orchestral work cannot be performed at Harvard without importing most of the necessary musicians from the outside...
...lawman, Philadelphia's District Attorney Arlen Specter was almost to Blackstone born. He has officially been a law enforcement officer since the age of three, when the sheriff of Sedgwick County, Kans., deputized him during a visit and won young Specter fleeting fame in Ripley's Believe It or Not. In 1964, as one of the youngest (he was then 34) investigators with the Warren Commission, Specter developed the report's cental "single-bullet" theory of the Kennedy assassination. Then, back in Philadelphia, Specter shifted political allegiance from liberal Democrat to liberal Republican, won handily...
Under the direction of former Yale Ornithologist Dillon Ripley, 52, Washington's fusty Smithsonian Institution has been spreading its wings of late. Its most staggering nest egg, donated last May, is Joseph Hirshhorn's $25 million collection of painting and sculpture, which is destined for its own building on the Capitol mall but will be administered by the Smithsonian. Last week the Smithsonian received a second bonanza: 102 paintings assembled for S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., four years ago. Under the title "Art: USA," they traveled 70,000 miles through 14 countries on three continents to become the most...