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...voices while ignoring others. "Levine's love affairs with certain voices are total," complains a Met singer. "When he finds a voice he likes, he uses it over and over." Like any other conductor, Levine has a roster of singers he finds congenial, among them Soprano Teresa Stratas, Tenor Placido Domingo and Baritone Milnes. Sometimes, as with veteran Diva Scotto, their voices are long faded but still histrionically effective. Sometimes they are not up to major-house standards, as with Tenor Philip Creech, whom Levine has pushed beyond the limit of his modest gifts. But his commitment to certain...
...immediately recognizable or coordinated whole. There is, for example, his alleged preference for gypsy music, Chubby Checker and Glenn Miller. While these things are not antipodal, it is hard to envisage Mr. Andropov among friends singing gypsy tunes, as he is said to do, in a "pleasant light tenor," then switching abruptly to The Twist or Pennsylvania 6-5000. Still, the image is peppy. The question of interior decoration has come up as well. In one account Mr. Andropov's home is graced with "European furniture," and in another with "modern Hungarian furniture." Unless one has an unusually precise...
...early to guess if Mr. Andropov will ever qualify to sing with such a group, pleasant light tenor or no pleasant light tenor. He would probably add Little Things Mean a Lot, neither a Chubby Checker nor a Glenn Miller hit, but a fitting theme song for a man whose life is being appraised from small angles. Alas, as the world unhappily discovers, little things do not always mean as much as the bigger ones, especially when one of the big things is the Soviet Union. But not to worry. For the moment it is enough to relish the portrait...
Faculty Chamber Concert Ray De-Voll, tenor, John Heiss, flute. Laurence Lesser, Cello, Victor Rosenbaum, piano Enc Rosenblith, Violin and Patncia Zander, piano; music of Haydn, Heiss Faure and Dvorak, Jordan Hall. 290 Huntington Avenue, Thursday...
...Johnnie Walker Scotch. Sándor Kopácsi, a former Budapest chief of police who now lives in Toronto, was frequently on the Soviet Ambassador's guest list and recalls how Andropov used to borrow the police force's gypsy band. With a clear tenor voice, Andropov would join in song fests. He was especially fond of a sentimental Hungarian ballad about a crane leaving its beloved mate to fly to foreign lands...