Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gian-Francesco Malipiero; and the Genesis account of creation, entitled by its composer, Aaron Copland, "In the Beginning." All three were performed to a miraculous perfection by New York's Collegiate Chorale, under the direction of Robert Shaw. Nell Tangeman sang with all vocal beauty the extended and difficult solo passages of the Copland work. Mary Crowley accompanied the Malipiero piece on the organ, and a brass choir from the Boston Symphony Orchestra helped out in the Hindemith...
...Judging Music". Virgil Thomson 4:00 o'clock. Meeting for discussion of papers read at the morning session. 6:15 o'clock-Concert of Choral Music in Memorial Church: The Collegiate Chorale, Robert Shaw, Conductor; New compositions: Aaron Copland, "In the Beginning" for chorus a cappela and mezzo soprano solo; Paul Hindemith, "Apparebit Repentino Dies" for chorus and 11 brass instruments; G. Francesco Malipiero, "La Terra" from Virgil's "Georgias" for chorus and organ...
Samuel Barber: Capricorn Concerto (Saidehberg Little Symphony, Daniel Saidenberg conducting; Concert Hall Society, 4 sides). Scored in Bach's concerto grosso style for flute, oboe and trumpet solo plus strings, it smacks more of Stravinsky than Bach, has a sensuous eeriness typical of some of Barber's later works...
Durante, playing his familiar self, cannot be restrained even by the necessities of traditional format, but only once does he get a chance to break loose into one of his remarkable solo performances with song and piano. The rest of the music is rather routine, though probably Hit Parade-ish, and the usual sprinkling of classical warhorses, such as the Bell Song from "Lakme" is tossed in, too. But no doubt the bobbysoxers will be wild about this one. Not only is their quondam idol, Frankie Sinatra, displayed prominently, but a newer dreamboy, a fellow named Peter Lawford with...
Milt got his start just a few blocks north-in Harlem. His mother, Mrs. Sandra Berlinger, a Wanamaker and Gimbels store detective, began peddling him around New York's old Biograph movie studios when he was only five. At 16, she shoved him into his first solo comedy act, planted herself in the audience and started every big laugh with a stentorian "yak" that soon became famed throughout show business. At 21, Milt was a smash hit at the Palace, rolled on to successes on Broadway. But most of all, he wowed them in nightclubs. (His latest...