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Eliot House Music Society--A performance of Rossini's Petite Messe Solonnelle. With Patricia DiRe, soprano; Maria di Stefano, mezzo-soprano; J. Scott Brumit, bass; J. Stephan Reed, tenor; Gisela Krause, piano; and Wayne Schneider, harmonium...
...committee representing numerous ethnic groups was upset about the Inauguration Eve concert in Kennedy Center. The stars include Actors John Wayne and Paul Newman, Actresses Bette Davis and Shirley MacLaine, Comics Elaine May, Mike Nichols and Redd Foxx, Athletes Muhammad Ali and Hank Aaron, Satirist Chevy Chase, Soprano Beverly Sills, Conductor Leonard Bernstein. Yet the Ethnic Cultural Inaugural Committee complained that the cast "doesn't reflect the ethnic and racial diversity of America." Most of the carping, however, centered on invitations and tickets. Some 300,000 "general invitations" on soft eggshell paper and colorful 16-page guides...
...club quietly canceled its traditional dinner in honor of the Metropolitan Opera company, whose visits have been the peak of the city's social season since 1910. The club explained that its ballroom was being refurbished, but Atlantans figured the real reason was that Leontyne Price, a black soprano, was to sing Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Met Director Rudolph Bing let it be known that if Price was not invited to the Piedmont dinner, no member of the company would attend...
Hubert Anvil, 10, is the best boy soprano in Christendom. But he will be neither a boy nor a soprano much longer-unless an alteration is performed on his anatomy. Church officials, including the Pope, decide that they and Hubert have no choice; such a talent must be preserved for the greater veneration and glory of God. Hubert, a devout and obedient lad, would nonetheless like to know what he will be missing from the manhood that is not to be his. "I know it's glorious to have God's favor," says the potential castrato...
Handel, Messiah: Soprano Elly Ameling, Contralto Anna Reynolds, Tenor Philip Langridge, Bass Gwynne Howell; Academy and Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner conducting (3 LPs, Argo). This is a masterly lesson in the art of making a familiar classic sound fresh and spontaneous. Marriner's authentically baroque phrasings, rhythms and instrumentations have much to do with that. So does his seemingly effortless ability simply to make music sing...