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EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (Aug. 18-Sept. 7) this year explores the compositions of Franz Schubert and Benjamin Britten. A concert version of Schubert's rarely heard opera, Alfonso und Estrella, is scheduled for Sept. 7, following a virtual Who's Who among artists, orchestras and opera companies in a generally classics-oriented program...
...FESTIVAL. "Elisabeth Schwarzkopf." The world-famous soprano in a recital of songs and arias by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Wolf and Strauss. Repeat...
...Storyville days and the birth of the big-band era in the early 1930s. He scrutinizes Louis Armstrong's solo on Big Butter and Egg Man (1926) as if it were a song of Mozart's. In fact, he writes, "not even a Mozart or a Schubert composed anything more natural and simply inspired." Blues Singer Bessie Smith's laments of a gin-soaked life might as well be lieder sung by Lotte Lehmann for the way Schuller praises their "fusion of technical perfection with a profound depth of expression...
...Yerushalami will play works of Schubert, Chopin, Seter, and Debussy...
...groups of comparative settings were interesting for historical and compositional reasons. Besides the staples Schubert, Faure and Debussy, they gave hearing to such out of the way composers as C. F. Zelter, J. F. Reichardt, Robert Franz and Josef Szulc. The art song is probably one of the most difficult musical media to perform well. Miss Wilsen's effort was noble, but in a sense she was trying too hard. Her tone was often forced and she had trouble with breath control...