Word: sopranoes
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...Leopold Mozart fans as well. Of all the pieces he plays, the toughest is the Brandenburg No. 2: in the upper range it soars to G above high C, and wise conductors almost always cheat on the trumpet part and make do with an E-flat clarinet or a soprano saxophone. As distinguished a musician as the Vienna Philharmonic's Helmuth Wobisch has been known to enlist a second trumpeter to negotiate the concerto's lower passages while he concentrated on the high ones...
...People are going to be shocked." said an 18-year-old soprano. She was right. When the 55 youngsters of the Princeton (N.J.) High School Choir performed in West Berlin, audiences were indeed shocked, but they were also delighted. People who had turned up expecting to hear such staples as Surrey with the Fringe on Top, got a dose of Anton Webern-the complex Cantatas Nos. 1 and 2-plus a Buxtehude cantata and Bach's Magnificat. As it passed the mid-point of its month-long tour of Europe last week, the choir had collected a scrapbook full...
...Three-Cornered Hat. Where Falla departed from his familiar style was in the sparing use of folk material and in the skillful use of a descriptive chorus. Atlantida has only three major singing roles: Narrator Corifeo (Baritone Lino Puglisi), Queen Pyrene (Mezzo Giulietta Simionato), and Queen Isabella (Soprano Teresa Stratas). Much of the action is either pantomime or dancing...
...soprano D.H.L...
Jenny Lind, The Swedish Nightingale, by Gladys Denny Schultz. Though the author oversentimentalizes her heroine and all but drowns her out with petty detail, this account of the cold, superbly gifted soprano who became P. T. Barnum's greatest exhibit is absorbing for its large store of remarkable anecdotes...