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Tamara Mitchell, soprano, performs vocal works this Sunday at 8:30 p.m. in Kirkland JCR. Free...
...choral repertoire, a consummately felicitous welding of poetry and music. The Bach Society's performance was truly gorgeous--all moonlight and velvet shadow. The chorus blended into a cool wave of sound, plumbing the music's dreamy depths without sacrificing a sparkling diction. The soloists, particularly soprano Ellen Burkhardt, were uniformly fine. The orchestra matched them in ethereal luster as a glossy violin solo, the ripple of a harp, and a punctuation of prancing fanfares closed the evening in shimmering enchantment...
...customary piling up of decibels. The soloists were a uniformly excellent band of singers-though how they fared dramatically depended on the whim of Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, former Wunderkind of European opera. Ponnelle attired his Electra in a red fright wig and managed the considerable feat of making Soprano Carol Neblett look less than gorgeous. Electra may be a mixed-up lady; she does not have to be a visual horror. As Idamante, Mezzo Maria Ewing sang with enough splendor to suggest that the gods had blessed her early and often. Unhappily, she had been garbed too boyishly...
...laments, which only he -and the audience (Ariadne's music is on pre-recorded tape)-can hear. He redeems himself through a sort of Wagnerian metamorphosis in which he firs thinks of himself as Theseus, then realizes that the Countess (splendidly sung by a young newcomer, Soprano Cynthia Clarey) is his real-life Ariadne after all Ariadne is a delightful romance, and a the final curtain last week, the audience responded with long applause and bravos. Sharing the reception onstage was Musgrave, who had spent the evening on the podium and was now outsmiling everyone. -William Bender...
Martha Heywood, whose picture appears on this page (quick--cover the captions and identify Heywood), plays guitar and dulcimer and sings in a clear, soprano voice next Sunday at the Back Room at the Idler, starting at 9 p.m. Other evenings at the Back Room: tonight, Molly Malone, ('40s blues); tomorrow, Patty Larkin (reggae, jazz); Saturday, Jim Bashian (folk guitar); Monday, Janie Barnett (folk and blues); Tuesday, Amy Foster (guitar and dulcimer); and Wednesday, Paul Rishell (blues, acoustic and slide guitar). Be there, aloha...