Word: sung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attacks, especially in the way he clouted his instrument in loud pizzicato chords. At quieter moments, he laid his cheek against the neck of the cello as if it were a pillow. Shafran's tone was big and creamy, his cantilena as expressive as if words were being sung. Critics raved. Said the Berliner Zeitung: "This artist must be counted among the most outstanding masters of the instrument...
This topnotch recording, conducted by Vienna's Karl Boehm and sung by an outstanding cast headed by Soprano Leonie Rysanek and Bass-Baritone Paul Schoeffler, reveals the Strauss score in all its turbulent brilliance, at times long-winded and meandering, but always the work of a master...
This exchange, accompanied by a long-winded, brassy orchestra with lots of percussion and no fiddles, was sung last week on a Berlin stage. Abstract Opera No. 1 was the work of two leading German composer-librettists, Boris Blacher. (Romeo and Juliet, Prussian Fairytale) and Werner Egk (Columbus, Irish Legend). The work was produced with deadpan literalness and conducted by Hermann Scherchen, one of Europe's famed conductors. Nobody in the audience shouted "Shoot the composer!" or "Hang the conductor!" In fact, to Composer Blacher's amazement, a capacity crowd received the work cordially, demanding many curtain calls...
...Bobbettes; Atlantic). A bestseller all about a suave-moving gent named Lee who is the cynosure of roving female eyes: "One, two, three Look at Mr. Lee Three, four, five Look at him jive!" Sung with a frenetic enthusiasm that suggests an itchy beater flailing the bush for quail...
...three songs after intermission were sung straightfaced, and at a level of artistry matched by very few folk-singers. His Go Down Moses, which he mingles with a rehashed Yiddish song, is powerful music by any standard...