Word: sopranos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests include Soprano Birgit Nilsson, Dancers Gwen Verdon and Peter Gennaro, Singers Jack Jones and Susan Watson. Color...
Abroad, at least, he is approached as if he were a visiting professor. (Interview on an Amsterdam radio station last week: "Who has had the greatest influence on your playing, Mr. Monk?" "Well, me, of course.") Most pleasing of all to Monk is a new quartet led by Soprano Saxophonist Steve Lacy that is dedicated solely to the propagation of Monk's music. In the past Monk has been the only voice of his music; he even has trouble finding sidemen...
...TIME can be very timely at times. Not two days previous to receiving the Feb. 7 issue, I searched the back of my An Affair to Remember album in vain for information on the fascinatingly beautiful voice listed only as "soprano-Marnie Nixon." The big question then became "Who is Marnie Nixon?" Thank you for not letting such a voice go unsung...
...Lincoln Continental, with built-in bar, had to be impounded by Italian customs. She can get it back any time-by paying a $5,000 fine, a $5,000 import duty and a $10,000 redemption fee. But since the car cost only $9,800 new, the American operatic soprano is having none of it. "I'm planning not to pay one lira of that fine," she told reporters. "I've got lawyers working on it. I'll take this as high as I have to." Meanwhile, sighed Anna conlamenti, "I've bought a bicycle...
Someone--soloists or chorus-sings remarks such as these throughout; except for the coda, there is only one measure for orchestra alone. The melodies for these remarks are correspondingly simple. Most are derived by some obvious alteration from the three-note cluster with which the soprano begins the work. Harmonically, too, the whole structure is clear; the tonal center seems to move from E to C to A, then explode into B, move around to E, and then conclude...