Word: sung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major U.S. orchestras.* Last week, one did. Henry Lewis, 28, a bass player for ten years with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, was filling in for ailing Igor Markevitch, led a topnotch, widely acclaimed concert that included Dvorak's Fourth Symphony and Beethoven's concert aria Ah Perfido!, sung by Lewis' wife, Soprano Marilyn Home. Vigorous, sweeping Conductor Lewis had previously led the Seventh Army Orchestra and the Los Angeles String Society, a group he formed himself in 1958, will conduct several other Philharmonic concerts. Said he last week: "One of the most important things...
...college boys could sing refined music so spiritedly mystified and delighted America. The French government invited them for a summer tour in 1921, and crowds packed Symphony Hall several times a year to hear them. A reviewer from the New York Herald Tribune babbled gleefully that the group had "sung things calculated to cause a fellow to run his eyes, hold down his head sidewise and kick to get something out of his ears." They sang with Fritz Kreisler, Pablo Casals and performed Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex at the Metropolitan Opera...
...admirably suited to his purpose. Everything in the piece serves to emphasize the voice--the stylized movements of the singer, Miss Cathy Berberian who dashes through the musicians like a demented Medea; the very sounds of the instruments themselves, sounds which extend and provoke the half-chanted, half-sung utterances of Miss Berberian...
...production of Tosca, was soon making guest appearances with the San Francisco opera. But it was in Europe that her career really caught fire. She made her European debut in Aïda in 1958, at the Vienna Staatsoper under Herbert von Karajan, has since sung in most of Europe's leading houses, including La Scala. This year at the Met she will also appear in Aïda, Butterfly, Turandot and Don Giovanni. On hand to see her debut last week were many friends and neighbors from Mississippi, who remember Leontyne as the little girl who used...
...like wine, which can grow only in its own soil, I can compose only in France." Originally, he intended it for one of his favorite singers, Italian Soprano Rosanna Carteri ("She has a voice with lipstick and powder"), but at the work's premiere the principal part was sung by U.S. Negro Soprano Adele Addison, who so impressed Poulenc that he interrupted a rehearsal to shout: "Parfait! Parfait! La perfection!" Poulenc plans to write a new opera for La Scala, and he is now working on yet another religious work, for a male chorus and children's chorus...