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...lack of electronic amplification and echo is most distressingly obvious in the case of the soloist, Mr. Cerf. Cerf displays a rather good, raw, voice. That is, he has no voice at all, just a rasping, unmusical tone that occasionally stays on pitch. Such a voice is perfect for rock, if it is doctored with numerous tubes. In its natural, undoctored self it is merely sad and less...
...concert introduced two musicians to the Sanders Theatre public: Ursula Oppens '65, soloist with the orchestra in Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto, and Robert Kogan '62, conductor of Beethoven's "Leonore" Overture...
...Ural peasant family, had danced with the Kirov company for ten years at the time of his defection. Ballet fans who have watched him in Paris call him the outstanding male dancer in the West-and probably in the world-and compare him favorably with Nijinsky. A gifted soloist, he is also known as a superbly good partner of the kind that 42-year-old Margot Fonteyn has too frequently lacked...
...tastes of a musician who champions contemporary scores but is firmly schooled in "the great Viennese classics." Alongside Veteran Composer Howard Hanson's Bold Island Suite, Szell offered Haydn's Symphony No. Q2 ("Oxford"), Brahms's Violin Concerto in D (with Erica Morini as the excellent soloist), and Rossini's bubbly overture to La Gazza Ladra...
...romantic lead at the Metropolitan Opera-dazzling Coloratura Mattiwilda Dobbs, 36, achieved another breakthrough: a desegregated concert in the Municipal Auditorium of her native Atlanta, Ga. Winning exultant plaudits from an audience of 3,000 with a repertory ranging from Brahms lieder to spirituals, the former First Congregational Church soloist beamingly accepted a basket of roses from Atlanta's Mayor Ivan Allen, who told her: "You have brought honor to Atlanta.'' Responded Mattiwilda: "My heart is so full ... I just...