Word: soloiste
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...ever had to beg Toscanini to play for charity-although he has refused to play for dictators. And he venerates Verdi above all other composers. For the past two months he has been teaching Verdi's score to his soloists. In his long, low-ceiling dressing room on the eighth floor of the RCA Building, he has sat at the piano, croaking and gesticulating at red-haired Soprano Herva Nelli, while a picture of Verdi stared at her from the piano's littered top. "Nelli," he pleaded, "please do use the expression on your face that you feel...
...ovatorio is a small work of Handel, but exceptionally lovely, especially in its word-coloration effects. That it did come through to the audience was a tribute to the finesse vocally and in diction of the combined choruses, the solid if unexciting virtues of bass soloist Paul Tibbetts, and the brilliant singing of Soprano Adele Addison...
...Soloist with the Club will include Olga Averino, Boston soprano, and pupils Calliope Shenas, contralto, and baritone Paul Tibbetts '45. "There is nothing else like it," continued Professor Fine, who has been at the Club helm since 1946 and last year conducted its Bach concert in an unofficial capacity...
Columbia Concert Orchestra (Sun. 11:30 p.m., CBS). U.S. premiere of Richard Strauss 's Oboe Concerto. Soloist: Mitchell Miller...
...Francisco Chronicle's Critic Alfred Frankenstein couldn't wait to get to his typewriter. After glowing words for Violinist Spivakovsky,* Frankenstein wrote: "This is conceivably the greatest violin concerto since Brahms . . . noble, rich and splendid . . . blazing display music for [a] soloist to conquer...