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Defotis is a professional singer and has sung and directed opera courses in Germany, working with both the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Boy's Choir
WHAT ARE WE TO MAKE OF Virgil Thomson's impish opera Four Saints in Three Acts? Composed to a nonsense text by Gertrude Stein, originally sung by a mostly amateur all-black cast and set against a 15,000-sq.-ft. cyclorama backdrop made of cellophane, the work was a sensation at its Hartford, Connecticut, premiere in February 1934 and quickly moved to Broadway for a six-week run. Ever since, music lovers have been debating what, if anything, it means. "Pigeons, on the grass alas," indeed...
Students can usually bring any monologue or song they want for an audition, whether it's a song they have sung in a previous musical, "The Star Spangled Banner" or "Happy Birthday." Last year, Shuman sang "Brown-Eyed Girl" for his audition...
...years, both men and women have not sung Kiddush, the prayer over the wine, because singing by women would violate the religious codes of a very small portion of the Orthodox students...
DIED. RICHARD VERSALLE, 63, tenor; of an apparent heart attack; at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Poised on a ladder, Versalle was performing the opening scene of The Makropulos Case when he was stricken and fell to the stage. He had just sung the line, "You can only live so long...