Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost exact copy of the first-night program. But little else was the same. At the birthday concert, the distinguished musicians in the black-tie audience far outnumbered those on the stage (among them: Composer Aaron Copland, Conductor Leopold Stokowski, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Violinist Isaac Stern and retired Tenor Lauritz Melchior). Ticket prices were set as high as $35 (regular concerts currently bring an $8.50 top). The orchestra, which merged in 1928 with the rival New York Symphony and became the Philharmonic-Symphony Society, has doubled from the original 53 players, to 106. What was once a daring program, with...
...Lied von der Erde was to have been the HRO's tour de force, as well as something of a swan song for Yannatos, who will be on leave next semester. The work requires a huge orchestra as well as mezzo-soprano and tenor soloists. Each of the six movements sets to music texts from a collection of Chinese poetry translated into German called Die chinesische Floete. Together they take an entire hour to perform. The work was thus the weightiest on the program, and received the bulk of rehearsal time since the HRO's last concert a month...
...vocal soloists, tenor William Brown was by far the more impressive as a musician. In spite of its oriental origins, the expression in this work is solidly German. Brown accordingly showed himself capable of both Schwung and Sehnsucht. His lower register has a rich, baritone-like quality; at the same time he can negotiate tenor B-flats with hardly any strain. Unfortunately his voice was often covered by the orchestra--his problem as well...
Certainly the approach worked in Walküre. From Tenor Jon Vickers (Siegmund) and Newcomer Gundula Janowitz (Sieglinde), listeners heard the creamy lyricism of Wagner's love music as only unforced vocalism can produce it. American Baritone Thomas Stewart's Wotan had the slight reediness of a singer not fully matured but promising. Nilsson, the Brunnhilde, who can outshout half a dozen Wagnerian orchestras at once, concentrated instead on the compellingly human qualities of the role...
Other departments--English, Government, and Chemistry for instance--may postpone the question until after Christmas. "Knowing the tenor of my department, I'm sure they'll put off crossing that bridge until they have to face it," Andrew M. Gleason, chairman of the Mathematics Department said Monday...