Word: schubert
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...transition from opera to art song within a recital is always hazardous, and Mme, Crespin had a bit of trouble adjusting her voice to the intimate demands of a group of Schubert and Schumann lie.ler. Schumann's Mondnacht, for example, was "crooned" rather than sung, and in general one missed just that quality which Mme. Crespin's recent teacher, Lotte Lehmann, would have brought to the songs, a sense that one was hearing a singing actress rather than a merely vocal phenomenon of the order of the Colossus of Rhodes...
...every music season brings to U.S. concert halls a U.S.-born singer who has already made it big in Europe. This season's entry is Mezzo-Soprano Grace Bumbry, 25, who made her Manhattan concert debut last week in Carnegie Hall. Her performance of Duparc songs, Italian songs, Schubert, Brahms, Liszt and Strauss lieder and Negro spirituals was eloquent exposition of a native talent that has been too long coming home...
Swoboda wisely chose a first program that was very gratifying to his players, as well as to his listeners. Frescobaldiana revelled in bombast, the Hary Janos Suite, in special effects; and the familiarity of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony easily overcame any distractions which the excellence of the piece might have created. What they attempted, Swoboda and the HRO did with the greatest flair; what the audience now deserves is a program as musically ambitious as, say, last week's Bach Society concert. The forthcoming premiere of Frank Martin's choral work, in Sanders and in Carnegie Hall, indicates that Swoboda...
Swoboda made up for the rather overwhelming Giannini with a clear, clean interpretation of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony. Swoboda took the opening Allegro moderato at a leisurely, though defensible, tempo, modifying it as the music demanded. Michael Brenner, clarinet, and Barbara Cohen, oboe, reflected musical thoughtfulness and care in their solos opening and ending the second movement...
Last spring David Schubert, a shelter analyst for Lockwood-Green, called Harvard "one of the best potential fallout shelter areas in Cambridge...