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...last concert of the season (it is also, said to tell, Joel Lazar's last concert, ever, as undergraduate conductor) will include the World Premiere of Senior Mark B. DeVoto's specially commissioned introduction (for the piano, K. 459, Joel A. Sachs '61; and for the K. 314, soloist; Ray Still, of Chicago Sanders Theatre, 3:30 P.M. Tickets: $.75 at the or at the door...
Archie Epp,s a tenor, was principal soloist of the evening, and he is as versatile as the Glee Club itself. Mr. Epps was required to sing both Mozart recitative and American spiritual; this he did very creditably. Frederick Ford, another tenor, whose voice is pleasant and relaxed if slightly husky, sang one of the evening's few folk songs...
...First Leontyne. At Laurel's Oak Park High School, Leontyne seemed to specialize in everything. She was a high school cheerleader ("There would be Leontyne at half time," says Kate Price, "walking around the field on her hands") and a soloist on virtually every one of the Negro community's civic and church programs. She also appeared at funerals, until one group of mourners was so overcome by her expressive performance that she was asked to stop singing. She did but vowed angrily: "That's the last funeral I'll ever...
...problem? The Nile can only be upstage." The crowd shouted "Brava Leonessa!" Then, for the new opera house at the Salzburg Festival last summer, Von Karajan "had this big, fat, crackpot idea of my doing Donna Anna." Leontyne did it, and followed it by opening the Berlin Festival as soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic. By then the Met's Rudolf Bing had signed her, and that was "the ultimate." Says Leontyne, looking back: "It was all so fast. My mind was so wide open. It was like having growing pains before your time...
...CONCERT. The fifth in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's yearly forays into Cambridge. The program is scheduled to include Darius Milhaud's La Creation du monde, Schumann's Violin Concerto in d (soloist: Henryk Szeryng), and Cesar Franck's Symphony in d. Sanders Theatre; 8:30 P.M. Tickets at Symphony Hall, or at the door...