Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There's a new Messiah out this year (no surprise), but don't buy it. Joan Sutherland is its major attraction, and Sir Adrian Boult its conductor. And unfortunately, Sir Adrian is one of those who thinks that Miss Sutherland can only sing well when she is singing Puccini (a palpable falsehood). Consequently, Sir Adrian has ripped Handel's oratoria from its century, making it as operatic and as nineteenth-century as he can. The result is a sprawling, unkempt orchestra, bawling, dyspeptic singers, and crawling, inept tempos. (London A 4357--you'll recognize the album by the ugly crucifix...
There are two shows, however, which avoid off-Broadway's avant-grade rut and substitute real theatricality: Sean O'Casey's Red Roses for Me, at the Greenwich Mews, and last year's Leverett House musical, Sing Muse, by Erich Segal and Joseph Raposo. The O'Casey ranks with the Broadway production of six years ago, which was prematurely ousted from the theater when a lease expired. It is a thrilling and beautiful play, to my mind one of the few masterpieces of this century...
...Sing Muse at the Van Dam Theater not only offers students a chance to compare an undergraduate with a professional production, but has grown into an even more entertaining show...
...University Choir holds its traditional Christmas Carol Service tonight and tomorrow in Memorial Church. The group, directed by John Ferris, University Organist and Choirmaster, will sing at 3:15 tonight and at 4:30 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. tomorrow...
...unlike Mozart, Stravinsky's setting of three Latin psalms is angular, harsh and massive. The chorus is made to sing heavy, declarative lines, which must, for a performance to succeed, be delineated and articulated with considerable precision. And last night under Mr. Senturia's direction, the Glee Club and Choral Society sang the Psalms impeccably. Their tone, full and fortunately wholesome, was rigidly controlled throughout, attacks were impressively clean, and self assured...