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...celebrate its 2,000th anniversary, Hindemith's new cantata is scored for three vocal soloists, a chorus and orchestra, and is based on the Fastnacht, or pre-Lenten festival, for which Mainz is famous. The text, partly by Hindemith and partly by Playwright Carl Zuckmayer, has the soprano and tenor soloists singing only in Mainzer dialect while the baritone sings in high German. Soprano and tenor are supposed to be watching an imaginary Fastnacht procession passing before them as they face the audience, and in the roles of low comics exchange opinions with the baritone about the history...
Actually, one can cavil only in retrospect at de los Angeles' choice of music, for even an old concert-favorite like Scarlatti's Le Violette pleases us anew when clothed in such velvety beauty of sound as the Spanish soprano produced last Wednesday. Still more noteworthy--because less expected--was the increased command which de los Angeles seems recently to have developed over the realm of German lieder. Her exuberant performance of Schubert's Mein! made me forget for a moment that the songs from Die Schone Mullerin and hardly suited to a woman's voice and manner...
...some members of the audience were clearly disappointed that de los Angeles chose to omit Adios Granada, a flamenco which she sings to her own guitar accompaniment. They need not have been; it is not every exam period after all, that brings with it a concert by the soprano with the world's loveliest voice...
Though every German soprano worthy of her breastplate has sung the role of the Marschallin in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, other singers keep a respectful distance. The Marschallin's notes are within easy reach of the best sopranos, but dramatically her role is too restrained for Italians, too aristocratic for Americans, too Viennese for the French. Last week though, a French soprano named Régine Crespin sang the final Marschallin of her first season at the Metropolitan Opera. It was the best at the Met since Lotte Lehmann's swan song 16 years...
Nebraska's Maxine Elizabeth Hepp Morrison, 47, was once a department store model in Grand Island, is now the best-dressed and most-talked-about first lady in the state's history. She has a well-trained soprano voice, has sung (Indian Love Call, Kiss Me Again, I'm Falling in Love with Someone) at civic, social and political gatherings all over the state. Married since 1936, she met Frank Morrison on a blind date at a rodeo; a bit before, she had been tipped off by a fortuneteller who told her that "a tall, dark...