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LEVERETT HOUSE JCR: Schoenberg Commemorative Concert, Jan. 21 at 8:30, featured soloists: Susan Larson, sprechstimme, Diana Hoagland, soprano, and Max Sung piano, Pierrot Lunaire, Piano Pieces opus 33 a and b, and the Second String Quartet, free...
Nancy Wilson, soprano, was in wonderful voice Friday as she sang two of Dowland's most famous ayres, "Say Love," and "Fine Knacks for Ladies." I wish she had sung some other Dowland songs, however. These two songs were delightful trifles, but at his best Dowland was capable of writing expressive, subtle, and profound laments that are among the glories of English music. Wilson's voice, pure and vibratoless, is ideal for Renaissance music. I was amazed at how well she projected the words in the vast cavern that is Sanders Theater...
Died. Jennie Tourel, 63, diminutive, Montreal-born soprano star of the Paris Opéra-Comique who fled to the U.S. during World War II, dazzled Metropolitan Opera audiences with her unusual range (low G to high C) and linguistic fluency (nine languages) and during the 1950s emerged as one of the leading vocal recitalists in the U.S.; of lung cancer; in Manhattan...
...That said, the pocket Steptanzer from Cabaret, who was master of ceremonies for the evening's San Francisco Opera Guild benefit, introduced his partner Beverly Sills. "I won't tell you how old am or how much I weigh," said the 44-year-old soprano, who weighs more than 119 Ibs., "but I'll sing." She delivered Una voce poco fa from It Barbiere di Siviglia, prompting Grey to begin the duet Là ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni. But the bantam of the opera was no match for the diva, who drowned...
...hand-clapped his way down the nave after giving a concert of a dozen new compositions of his own in honor of United Nations Day. Princess Margaret and Prime Minister Edward Heath were among the Ellington loyalists who heard the choir of the Royal College of Music and Swedish Soprano Alice Bobs sing lyrics never to be found in the Anglican hymnal. "Is God a three-letter word for love," they caroled, "or is love a four-letter word...