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...original sound. But the new old 78s will have both unfiltered high frequencies and unrumbled lows. Hardly comparable to the sound of the LP era, they nevertheless restore a forgotten adequacy of the sonic -and artistic-achievements of the past. As a result, nearly forgotten singers like Conchita Supervia, Fernando de Lucia and Maria Nemeth will be resurrected and sent along to collectors in their original sonic quality...
...expert--all done with lovely tone, the right moods struck and the vocal difficulties encompassed. Yet there was none of that real vibrance and passion which alone can make these songs engaging, none of the personal excitement provided-if we can judge by her recordings-by the great Conchita Supervia...
...program was Falla's ballet music El Amor Brujo, the best known section of which is the Ritual Dance of Fire. Based on Spanish folk spirit, Falla's music is exotic, feverish, and sometimes haunting. Soloist Malama Providakes sang with an idiomatic flavor reminiscent of the great contralto Conchita Supervia, with a dark, full-blooded tone. There were several lovely Oboe solos from Cynthia Deery, while the Orchestra as a whole played with both fire and precision...
Died. Conchita Supervia, 37, famed Spanish coloratura mezzo-soprano, wife of a British timber merchant named Ben Rubenstein; in childbirth; in London. Beauteous Mme Supervia once appeared with the Chicago Civic Opera Company (TIME...
Directed by Victor Saville in the lethargic British manner, Evensong is chiefly notable for the fact that slim, blonde, pretty Evelyn Laye manages to look bitterly old, awkwardly massive in its final sequences. Good shot: the café scene from La Bohême, in which Spanish Soprano Supervia ably sings Musetta's Waltz...