Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AARON COPLAND: THE TENDER LAND (Columbia). An abridgment of Copland's only major opera, set on a Midwest farm in the '30s. Though the characters sing of gingham and the smell of stew, the music is not homespun, being tenderly lyrical. A small-scale work suitable for opera workshops, it was recorded by soloists from the New York City Opera, with the Choral Art Society and the New York Philharmonic, Copland conducting...
...summer's day in the back-hill country of Henderson, Tenn., it was just plumb natural for all the farmboys to sing as they plowed their fields. Over at the Arnold farm, young Eddy would hear the voices echoing along the creek bottom and he would chime in with That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine, or maybe just practice up on his yodeling. Come sundown, he would toss his hand-me-down Sears, Roebuck geetar into a gunny sack and ride the family mule six miles into town to pick up 75? playing square-dance music...
Still, he finds "all the talk about the profit side" a little boring. All he really wants to do, he says, is sing. When his friend Frank Clement, the Governor of Tennessee, recently tried to persuade him to run as his successor in the statehouse, Arnold turned him down. "They tell me I would win," he explains, "but then I wouldn't be able to sing. And if that happened, then I just wouldn't be me any more...
...heady ascent to fame has left Mrs. Miller slightly bemused, and still sweetly oblivious to the fact that she can't sing worth a hoot. "I'm not the best musician in the world," she says modestly. "My musicianship might crumble under someone like Leonard Bernstein." And while she candidly admits that her classically trained voice is not attuned to rock 'n' roll, she is touched by the interest of her teen-age fans. Last week, while trying to decide which of her two concert gowns she will wear for her appearance on the Ed Sullivan...
Norma Levin proves herself a fine straight actress as Adriana. But with her two numbers--"Falling in Love With Love" and "Sing For Your Supper"--she seems a little uneasy. It also falls to her lot to sing some of "The Shortest Day of the Year," a song which demonstrates Lorenz Hart at his least inspired. Carol Schectman is a singer first and foremost, and even a little below her range, as in "This Can't Be Love," she works with abundant wonders...