Word: sings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sing Along with Mitch (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Soloists: Leslie Uggams, Louise O'Brien, Mary Lou Ryhal, Bill Ventura...
...Caesar, Peter Lind Hayes, Bob Crosby. She won $25,000 as a contestant on Name That Tune. Mitch Miller, as Columbia Records' artists-and-repertory man, saw her and signed her to a contract, starting her up the charts. As a TV performer, Miller invited her to sing along with him and finally made her a permanent star. It was a long pull. She was seven when she started...
...vocally, Miss Tsukamoto provided only the barest outlines of any kind of Butterfly at all. Her pleasant voice was often completely inaudible in low-lying or pianissimo passages, and only occasionally did she summon anything like the power necessary for Butterfly's big moments. A soprano who can sing the second act of Butterfly should also be able to sing Tosca: they are both "Italian operas," and the first rule for singing in an Italian opera is to make sure everyone can hear you. Refinements come later on-if, of course, they come...
...soprano is absolutely enormous, solid and brilliant throughout its considerable range, but especially stunning at the top. Mme. Crespin launched into the treacherous Gluck aria with no more visible effort than if she had been singing a Faure chanson. She did, in fact, sing some Faure later in the program, and very nicely, too, but my grosser sensibilities craved another of those absurd and wonderful scenas for dramatic soprano something like "Ozean, du Ungeheuer" from Weber's Oberon...
...symbolize the work's spirit of reconciliation, Britten had originally selected an Englishman and a German for the two male leads-English Tenor Peter Pears and German Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. But Fischer-Dieskau, who was so moved during the Coventry performance that he was barely able to sing some of his lines, had an attack of bronchitis and was forced to cancel in Germany. His part was taken by Austrian Baritone Walter Berry. The audience seemed almost hypnotized from the work's opening lines to Owen's closing "Let us sleep...