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...triumph should not be underestimated. At a single stroke, it has made the reputation of Chung, up until now probably best known as the younger brother of violinist Kyung-Wha Chung. Against all odds, he assembled a cast whose only prominent members were sopranos Grace Bumbry (Cassandra) and Shirley Verrett (Dido) and drew from it a sensitive reading of Berlioz's sprawling score. Bumbry was in good voice; Verrett was not; and the other singers tended to be ciphers. But Chung welded them and a surprisingly good chorus together into a splendid ensemble...
COPY DESK: Susan L. Blair (Copy Chief); Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Minda Bikman, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Barbara Dudley Davis, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Gyavira Lasana, Melinda J. McAdams, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss...
COPY DESK: Susan L. Blair (Copy Chief); Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Minda Bikman, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Barbara Dudley Davis, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Gyavira Lasana, Melinda J. McAdams, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss...
COPY DESK: Susan L. Blair (Copy Chief); Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Minda Bikman, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Barbara Dudley Davis, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Gyavira Lasana, Melinda J. McAdams, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss...
COPY DESK: Susan L. Blair (Copy Chief); Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Minda Bikman, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Barbara Dudley Davis, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Gyavira Lasana, Melinda J. McAdams, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss...