Word: sing
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MAME was hilarious in a book, ebullient in a play, a delight on the screen, and in this musical she can sing and dance too. Angela Lansbury plays the most famous aunt since Jemima, with a winning mixture of the maternal...
...Easy as Lying. The recorder derives its name from the archaic meaning of the verb "record," that is, "to sing like a bird." Its origins have been traced to the 12th century, but its heyday came in the late 17th and early 18th century, when Bach, Purcell, Telemann, Vivaldi and Handel wrote a wealth of music for it. Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton and Pepys celebrated its endearing combination of solemnity and sweetness, and King Henry VIII was an avid noodler on his collection of 77 recorders. As orchestras grew larger, however, the gentle voice of the recorder was replaced...
...Good to Sing. The Tchaikovsky launched some new personalities last week. One was a California soprano, Jane Marsh, 24, who took first prize ($2,775) in the voice competition. At first glance, Marsh seemed too good to sing true. A tall (5 ft. 11 in.) blonde with a fresh-scrubbed athletic look, she is the embodiment of a capitalist American background. She was a tomboy, an expert swimmer, a 4-H girl who in true Walt Disney tradition sold her favorite horse to pay for music lessons. She sang in public professionally for the first time only last season, when...
...male cast, headed by Tenor Andrea Velis as the madwoman, masterfully performed Britten's difficult, often eerie sing-speech style of vocal writing. The score was as delicate and intricate as a spider web, interlaced with the chatter of small untuned drums and plunking strings reminiscent of Oriental music. The most impressive achievement was that, in mixing such disparate elements as modern dissonances, a morality play and No drama, there was no clash of styles but rather a smooth melding into what is a new and wholly engaging musical form...
...valiant attempt at the clown Feste, but it is folly to cast this role with anyone who is not also a singer, since he has several solo songs. Conrad Susa's music is a mishmash of styles. "O mistress mine," accompanied by bells, suffered from Mathews' inability to sing on pitch. At the opening performance he did better with "Come away, death," a quite lovely piece accompanied by two oboes and a harp. He is allowed to end the show as Shakespeare wrote it, singing "When that I was" all alone on stage. The lights go down, stars come...