Word: sopranos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conductors that "if these jokers can do it, it's got to be easy." From Juilliard, where his early attempts at conducting were roundly panned, he graduated to conducting jobs with the Symphony of the Air, the American Ballet Theater, the New York City Center. Married to Mezzo-Soprano Gloria Lane (TIME, March 28), he is still astounded at being so much in demand for guest appearances. "A few years ago, if I wanted expense money for a taxi, I had to fight for it. Now they...
...known as "The Great Stone Face." Under him the student paper was regularly censored because it came out against a natural gas bill that favored Texas gas producers by exempting them from FPC regulation. Nor did Wilson win points in the 1957 case of Coed Barbara Louise Smith, a soprano who was removed from the leading role in a music department production of Dido and Aeneas because some legislators objected to the fact that she is a Negro. (The university is desegregated, has about 250 Negroes...
...cycles per second. A cone-shaped concentrator mechanically coupled to the crystal intensifies these vibrations and produces a sharply defined beam. The surgeon removes a small portion of the bone behind the ear, acoustically irradiates the exposed canal with the gun's waves. Much as a soprano's high note can shatter a wineglass, the beams shot from the gun are supposed to shake the diseased cell structure and destroy it. In preliminary tests on a group of 22 sufferers treated with the ultrasonic waves, 15 were relieved of further at tacks of the disease, and four showed...
...lovers' departure as an omen of the day when "Deseret too will go out into the great world . . ." Composer Kastle provided a surgingly lyrical score admirably suited to the moods of the text. One of its high points was a rhapsodic duet between the heroine, expertly portrayed by Soprano Judith Raskin, and the officer ("No rival heart/ No rival wife/ Will come/ Between our flesh/ Our love"). Other standouts: a triumphant final sextet celebrating the "lesson of love," and the heroine's sprightly address to a mirror to variations of Come, Come, Ye Saints. The opera...
...Metropolitan Opera debut in the title role of Gluck's Alcestis (TIME, Dec. 19), Soprano Eileen Farrell, 40, left her fans cheering a reputation instead of a performance: the fabled power and warmth were there, but the voice wobbled shrilly in the upper registers. Last week, appearing in some of the Met's fastest company (Mezzo Nell Rankin, Tenor Richard Tucker, Baritone Robert Merrill), Singer Farrell made her second Met start-the title role in Ponchielli's La Gioconda. Blonde-wigged and almost wobble-free, she supplied the spectacular singing her audience had come to hear...