Word: singed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the principal reason for "Salome's" infrequent appearance is a title role which is almost prohibitively hard to sing. The part requires not just a fabulous voice, but also the ability to carry off convincingly a highly dramatic role, one which requires everything from kissing a severed head to dancing a modified strip tease. Ljuha Welitseh's performance was a real virtuoso triumph, which makes it easy to understand how, in two months, she has risen from anonymity to become the Met's leading prima donna...
Sunday afternoon and evening, the entire Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society will sing Bach's B Minor Mass at Symphony Hall with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Dr. Serge Koussevitsky. An intermission for supper will break the long program into two parts...
...Glee Club, in its biggest weekend schedule of the year, will sing on three consecutive days with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall starting this evening...
Tonight and tomorrow evening, a select group of the Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society will sing the choral finale of the Mahler Second Symphony under the direction of Leonard Bernstein '39. Only those who sang in last year's performance of this number will perform. Asked by Bernstein to come only a month ago, the Glee Club has practiced hard for this special occasion...
...adds up to a unique evening. For it is not a musical as musicals have come to be known. Not quite everything works out joyfully in the end. Its songs are not superimposed more or less meaningless on its story; they seem to be what the characters would sing if they ever happened to burst into song. Its comedy characters are not simply eccentrics. Its here is not a Jack Armstrong who has taken singing lessons. Its cast is not just a collection of handsome people; almost everyone can act. It has no ballet. And it has no elaborate finales...