Word: sopranoes
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...ourselves and our generation," Dr. Taylor explained recently. "We weren't going to use that cop-out of 'because the Bible tells you so.' " James' mother, Trudy Taylor, is the daughter of a Massachusetts fisherman and boat builder who before her marriage trained seriously as a lyric soprano. She had seen fondness for music so tormented by formal training that, though James, Livingston, Alex and Kate all took up various instruments (violin, cello, piano), they seldom took lessons for long. Mrs. Taylor did not go to church. Instead, she taught her children "to believe in people," and long before ecology...
...Selon Pli-meaning "fold along the fold"-is based on three poems by Mallarme and was begun in the late 1950s. With piano, guitar and mandolin, it also enlists a soprano soloist and a full orchestra, runs 60 minutes, and is easily Boulez's most ambitious composition to date, outstripping even his 1955 Le Marteait sans Maitre. Severely serial, the work begins with a crash and a delicate wash of impressionism, a mixture of Debussy and Webern. Much of it glitters with the percussive polka-dotting of pointillism; all of it is abstract, moving in tiers of timbres, skeletal...
...mishmash. Each medium, sparse and perfect, is fully capable of transmitting on its own Beckett's humble yet invincible commitment to struggle. Only rarely does more than one of the seven fine musicians-two of them percussion-play at a time. With them, and alone, sings an incredibly clear soprano, Benita Valente. Her voice rises out of the pit like a tiny emission of life from the obscurity of the set, which was designed by Franco Colavecchia. He was more concerned to build something that would hold the lights than to design a work...
...route, nothing is finished, and mean-while-as if pinching ourselves to make sure we're alive-we must perform exercises. Gamely, in her extraordinarily sweet soprano, Benita Valente sings on. "where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must...
Died. Mimi Benzell, 47, Metropolitan Opera soprano turned successful Broadway, TV and nightclub singer; of cancer; in Manhasset, N.Y. Making her Met debut at age 21 as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute, she won acclaim for such roles as Gilda in Rigoletto and Musetta in La Boheme before moving to Broadway, where she starred in the long-running musical Milk and Honey...