Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contestants must perform before a three man musical board, including Band director Wiseblatt. A series of intensive coordinating rehearsals will follow the selection of a winner, in order to integrate the solo piano with the band accompaniment...
Orff's Carmina consists of settings of two dozen medieval Latin and German poems on the subjects of fate, spring, drinking, gambling, and love. All the performers summoned plenty of vitality, and there was fine solo singing by Aletha Munro, soprano; Robert Patterson, bass; and Charles A. Campbell, tenor. The audience was wild in its approval. Personally, however, I found that this work does not wear well at all. It is monotonous, and its unvaried strophic repetitions soon become tiring. Only in the short, lyrical "In Trutina" (No. 21), for soprano solo, did Orff touch greatness...
...Brubeck and men, in warm and witty mood, return to the folk materials they have examined so successfully before. Brubeck contributes some quietly capering choruses to When It's Sleepy Time Down South and Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair. Alto Saxophonist Paul Desmond offers a fine, wistful solo in Southern Scene, and the whole group swings with a loose, happy-holiday feeling...
...walked fresh from a church choir to the studio of her teacher, Dutch Lieder Singer Bernard Diamant, who told her, "You don't know how to sing." Having worked hard with Diamant, she gol her big break in 1957 when Walter hired her for one of the solo parts in Mahler's Second Symphony with the Philharmonic Although she sings some contemporary works, she prefers the songs of Hugo Wolf excerpts from Wagner, Mahler. Said she before going onstage last week: "I fee every word, but I have to keep the feel ing under control. I sing...
...Piano, Five Fragments by Sappho for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra, Five Songs for Baritone. Most of the music was in Dallapiccola's characteristic style-lyrical but contorted, warmer than the twelve-tone music of the Viennese School, expert in its blending of small instrumental combinations with the solo voice. Swedish Soprano Elisabeth Soeder-stroem sang the Five Fragments with clarity and elegance. Another standout: the second of the Two Studies, a vigorous fugue studded with complex but exhilarating technical tricks...