Word: sung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bing Sung, who has improved rapidly since last year, will start at 130, and Jeff Grant will be at 177. Both have some varsity experience, but neither is likely to turn into an exceptional performer this season...
Schoenberg wrote this gargantuan cantata before he made his break with tonality, but he deploys the oversized orchestra and chorus in daring polyphonic passages that alternate with romantic solos, sung beautifully in this recording by Soprano Inge Borkh and Tenor Herbert Schachtschnei-der. The Bavarian Radio Orchestra is con ducted by Rafael Kubelik...
...small group"), Ghiaurov approaches each role like a Ph.D. thesis, spends months probing into the history and psychological motivation of each character. Many opera singers, having learned a role in a foreign language, often have no idea of the meaning of the words they mouth, much less those being sung by the rest of the cast. Ghiaurov, on the other hand, knows by heart every role of every singer in every opera he has ever sung, down to the smallest bit part. "How else," he asks incredulously, "can you put your whole heart and head into a role...
...SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE (Verve). Mrs. Gilberto adds another LP to the family, this time featuring American standards like Fly Me to the Moon and Day by Day. The title song is the love theme from The Sandpiper, which is infectious when hummed but sickening when sung: "A teardrop kissed your lips...
When it was all over, and the reprises had all been sung, the cast yelled and the producer, the publicity manager, the chief choreographer, the director, and the chairman of the whole thing (Diane Sawyer), trooped onstage. The audience applauded, the cast cheered, and the four little old alumnae who had driven in from Lincoln and were sitting across the aisle from me began...