Word: sopranos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wednesday, a concert will be given by Shirley Suddock, soprano, Rowland Sturges, plano, Mary Fraley Johnson, violoncello, and Howard Brown, flute. The program includes lieder by Franz Schubert and Hugo Wolf; Fetes Glantes, set I, of Debussy and Chanson Madecasses by Maurice Ravel...
...black Rolls-Royces drew up to a pier in Monaco, disgorged recently divorced Shipping Czar Aristotle Socrates Onassis and his great and dear friend, sulphurous Soprano Maria Callas, legally separated from her husband. A scarlet speedboat skittered them out to Onassis' yacht Christina. On the eve of sailing for Eastern Mediterranean ports, "Ari" and Maria went ashore for dinner with Monaco's Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace. Next day Christina steamed off across the azure waters for Capri, and from there she was bound for Venice, where Maria would presumably debark to keep a recording date...
...Anthony Singers, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; London). A slightly cut version of the masque that became the most popular of Handel's works in his own lifetime. The score is fresh and frothy, the choral numbers a wonder of vocal crosshatching, and the performance controlled and clear. Soprano Sutherland trills her lines with transparent ease...
Orff's Carmina consists of settings of two dozen medieval Latin and German poems on the subjects of fate, spring, drinking, gambling, and love. All the performers summoned plenty of vitality, and there was fine solo singing by Aletha Munro, soprano; Robert Patterson, bass; and Charles A. Campbell, tenor. The audience was wild in its approval. Personally, however, I found that this work does not wear well at all. It is monotonous, and its unvaried strophic repetitions soon become tiring. Only in the short, lyrical "In Trutina" (No. 21), for soprano solo, did Orff touch greatness...
...director fall even to perceive that the rhythm of "your own most pregnant and voch safed ear" demands that the penultimate word be trisyliabic. Herman Chessid's incidental music is inferior, though his songs are good ("O Mistress Mine" and "Come Away, Death" are fetchingly sung by a boy soprano, David Grees...