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...usually works but occasionaly grates. Her dialogue is fine, but her singing becomes marred by a series of repeated gestures and tricks that would probably go over on a big stage--say, the Loeb--but look strange on the puny Leverett platform. Ravenal's voice, a pretty, clear soprano, becomes obscured now and then by some Eydie-Gorme-esque whispers, ostensibly for emphasis, and a tendency to park and remain planted in one spot for the duration of a song, much like a 50-mm. cannon. Still, these are minor and seemingly alterable flaws; on the whole, Ravenal's Sarah...
...concertgoers. This fall, the Touring Program features eight concerts by vocalists, chamber players, brass quintet and a violinist. The concerts take place at such locations as the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Walpole State Prison and the Goethe Institute of Boston. Today at noon, soprano Sheila Gayle sings music of Handel and Debussy at the Federal Reserve, 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, and the Romanul Chamber Players perform at the Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway, Boston, at 4 p.m. All of the concerts are free and feature performances by students selected by the B.U. School...
Puccini: La Fanciulla del West (Soprano Carol Neblett, Tenor Placido Domingo, Baritone Sherrill Milnes; Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Zubin Mehta, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon; 3 LPs). Fanciulla (1910) is a second-rate Italian opera comically posing as a shoot-'em-up thriller. Neblett makes a dramatic frontier heroine. Domingo, as her lover, sings everyone else under the bar, and Milnes is dashingly villainous. With Mehta in the saddle, chorus and orchestra ride smartly home...
...begins with Soprano-Narrator Barbara Hendricks, 29, a Juilliard graduate, reciting the opening lines of the penultimate Alice chapter (the trial of the Knave for stealing the Queen's tarts) and ends with Alice's exit from Wonderland. As the orchestra loudly warms up, the White Rabbit bellows "Silence in the court!" and the instruments' din comically subsides. Then, for about an hour, the score seesaws between the basic narrative and funny, parodic arias that are often sweetly melodic and easy...
...they weren't bad. Willie Nelson's slightly nasal baritone complemented Rosalynn Carter's soft soprano, and the crowd clapped rousingly to the music. The First Lady had no trouble with the lyrics since both she and Jimmy know Nelson's hits by heart. The setting was the White House lawn, where Nelson, the king of outlaw country, put on a stompin' good show last week. The most eye-opening song of the evening: Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother. The President himself, a stock car racing buff and Nelson...