Word: singeing
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Choir. The University Choir gave a spectacular performance of the Bach Cantata No. 131 last Sunday. The Motet they will sing this Sunday afternoon should be very good. The Motets are to singers what string quartets are to violinists: a form more easily appreciated by performers than by listeners. Just a warning to those who might expect to hear in the motet the more varied timbres of a cantata orchestration. --Kenneth Hoffman...
Composed when Beethoven, never a particularly graceful vocal composer, had long been deaf, the Missa Solemnis reflects its composer's implacable unwillingness to make allowances for performers' limitations. The soprano part, abounds with sustained Forte. As and B flats. Often called upon to sing Fortissimo for long passages, Adams's choir coped with their hard-to-negotiate vocal lines courageously, and by and large, successfully. The balance was usually fairly good, with the men tending to outweigh the women at times. A large measure of the success of this performance was due to the sensitivity with which the choir responded...
...land. But so what? The important thing is that the chief villain is named Hedley Lamarr, and the actors insist on mispronouncing his name; that at a town meeting an anguished citizen complains that "people are being stampeded and the cattle raped"; that a black labor gang, ordered to sing a Negro spiritual by their straw boss, respond with a nice arrangement of Cole Porter's I Get a Kick out of You; that ex-Football Tackier Alex Karras, on hand to play a homicidal moron, gets in a fight with a horse and fells it with a single...
...professional." Benjamin Cox is capable in the role of Belmonte, and he has the style of a professional, but there is no excitement generated between him and the audience. His voice is not particularly powerful, and he doesn't exhibit any exceptional control. Elizabeth McLaughlin should not have been singing on the night that I heard her, for she has just recently recovered from bronchitis. The role of Constanze is a demanding one, and she butchers "Marten aller Arten." She is perhaps very courageous, but she should have let her understudy sing. Ruth Elena Harcovitz was splendid as the spitfire...
...unappreciative audiences, Linda Ronstadt is finally getting the attention she deserves. He start with a group called the Stone Poneys was less than over-whelming, but Ronstadt has developed into one of the finest, most energetic country singers around. Jackson Browne writes pleasant songs. Other people sing them better. Friday, March 1, at the Orpheum Theater...