Word: standouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bodied and rich, the diction faultless, the rhythm and phrasing reminiscent of Ella Fitzgerald. To a casual record store browser it might signify the most exciting new popular singing talent to come along in years. But the voice is not new. It belongs to a great lieder singer, a standout oratorio performer (Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Handel's Messiah), and a star of such operas as La Gioconda and Medea. The singer: Eileen Farrell. probably the finest dramatic soprano in the U.S., who will make her Met debut next season in Gluck's Alceste...
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (Lisa Delia Casa; the Chicago Symphony, conducted by Fritz Reiner; RCA Victor, mono and stereo). Even in the flood of Mahler-year recordings, Conductor Reiner's brilliant, surgically clean reading of the Fourth is a standout. Under his baton, the massive Mahler sonorities remain remarkably clear and unclotted, and what often smacks of bombast in other performances emerges as music of dignity and grandeur. Soprano Delia Casa sings the folklike melody of the fourth movement with warmth and charm...
...Never a standout at Syracuse University, Navy Lieut, (j.g.) John McGill, 23, turned the 200-yd. medley in 2:03.3 to knock 7.8 sec. off his best pre-meet time and set an A.A.U. championship record. Cracked McGill: "I'm as surprised as anyone...
...music was in Dallapiccola's characteristic style-lyrical but contorted, warmer than the twelve-tone music of the Viennese School, expert in its blending of small instrumental combinations with the solo voice. Swedish Soprano Elisabeth Soeder-stroem sang the Five Fragments with clarity and elegance. Another standout: the second of the Two Studies, a vigorous fugue studded with complex but exhilarating technical tricks...
...passionate but controlled. In the comparatively minor role of Daland, the Norse sea captain, Bass Giorgio Tozzi-convincingly costumed in turtleneck sweater, jacket and boots-sang with warm-timbred verve, while Tenor Karl Liebl turned in his best performance of the season as the huntsman Erik. But the real standout of a standout cast was Soprano Leonie Rysanek in the role of Senta, the self-sacrificing heroine who in characteristic Wagnerian style must die to secure the redemption of her lover. Her singing in the usually static second act was superb; her soprano rose and fell around London...