Word: saint-saens
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...opera world. These range from the visual (such as Joan Sutherland's misaligned and garish lipstick on an album cover or the combination of Renata Tebaldi's ample bosom and her tight costume on the over of Aida) to the aural (Marilyn Horne singing "Mon coeur" from saint-Saen's Samson and Delilah, Anna Moffo's delivery of the single word disvelto in Verdi's Rigoletto) and even the oral (in a discussion of opera as addictive behavior, he calls listening to an entire opera the equivalent of locking himself in the bathroom to eat a quart of ice cream...
Appearing as the immortal Anna Pavlova, Tamara Toumanova convinced me that she is every bit as immortal as the great Pavlova. Delicate, sensuous, and with an unforgettable, fragile beauty, I am sure she does not have an equal on the ballet stage. She floats, rather than dances, through Saint-Saen's The Swan and Anton Rubinstein's Valse Caprice...
...fourth concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Sanders Theatre will be held next Thursday evening, January 11, at 8 o'clock. The soloist will be Miss Irma Seydel, a promising young violinist, who will play Saint-Saen's Concerto for violin, No. 3. She has worked under Charles Martin Loeffler in Boston, and has studied harmony under Andre Maquarre, of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She has played in Germany and was to make a tour of Europe when the war broke out. She has since appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at several of its small town performances...
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