Word: sopranoes
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...heads east on a slow freight. He lands in New Orleans, immerses himself in jazz, and suffers a creative convulsion that brings him to the edge of madness. He follows his daemon to East Harlem, then on to Germany, where he composes an electronic symphony, scores it for soprano, orchestra, tape, women's high-heeled shoes, and vacuum cleaner. When it is performed back in the Hollywood Bowl, some cheer and some jeer, but he is accepted by the public as a genuine genius...
...John Gary, 32, describes himself as "a lyric baritone with a freakish range" (three octaves). Born John Gary ("My mother was a Gary Cooper fan") Strader in Watertown, N.Y., he toured the South as "the all-American Irish boy soprano" before he was ten. Blond, boyishly engaging Gary woos with his high-register, artfully shaded renderings of Danny Boy and Unchained Melody. His ability to hold a note for a seeming eternity, he says, is a skill that comes from his many hours spent underwater working as a professional scuba diver. In that capacity, he claims the world...
...music with the murmur of the sea. Performances are held in the centuries-old square of St. Michel's Church, which affords a panoramic view of the surrounding lemon groves and the port. Highlights include concerts by Pianists Byron Janis and Van Cliburn and a Schubert recital by Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf...
...resoundingly. The old hall was dressed up to look like an opera house, with garlands of flowers ringing the grand tier and an Egyptian-style proscenium jutting out to the apron of the stage. Leading a competent cast of 200, Metropolitan Opera Bass-Baritone Giorgio Tozzi and Brooklyn-born Soprano Evelyn Lear, making her U.S. opera debut after an admirable, eight-year career in Europe, managed Handel's long, difficult, rapid-fire arias with fine finesse...
...Mary Martin, playing the lead in the road company of Hello, Dolly!, where her light soprano makes for a more dainty Dolly than the blonde baritone of Broadway's Carol Channing. Fresh from having set house records in Minneapolis, Kansas City and New Orleans, Mary had been welcomed at Dallas' Love Field by a larger crowd than had come out to see Hubert Humphrey five hours earlier. Among the 3,720 on opening night was Billie Jones, 68, Mary's Negro nurse back in Weatherford, who had seen her at the Music Hall in Annie Get Your...