Word: tenore
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When Mr. Pusey remarked two months ago of the Cheever Report on Federal Aid that "it was purely descriptive; policy will evolve slowly over the next few years;" and two weeks ago of the University's position on civil defense that "We never anticipate" he described the tenor of his Administration all too precisely. Not that anybody can reasonably suggest that the President make all the essential decisions of the next decade this spring. But his reluctance to make up his mind on matters which urgently need direction not only leaves the problems themselves unsettled but the concerned Faculty foundering...
...languishes in her absence. Mr. Lucian Russell is a likeable fellow as Robin Oakapple (that is to say, the real Ruddigore, only in disguise, you know). And Mr. A. Thompson, who plays Oakapple's foster brother, Richard Dauntless, makes the most of one of Gilbert's few comic lyric tenor roles, and achieves a creditable hornpipe. So too, does Mr. Edward Schmookler, the villainous Sir Despard Murgatroyd (Oak apple's real brother, if you get what I mean). Schmookler is got up to resemble Mr. Hyde, and he rubs his hands, rolls his eyes, and flashes his tooth to great...
...works came first and last. Bach's Cantata 161, 'Komm, du susse Todesstunde' (1715) matched the efficiency of Mlle. Boulanger's conducting with its extreme economy of harmonic movement and accompaniment. Under her restraint, the ensemble of some twenty singers and twenty instrumentalists managed to sound personal, even intimate. Tenor Karl Dan Sorenson filled the museum court-yard with his clear and accurate voice; in her second solo, Contralto Jenneke Barton did the same...
Carissimi's popular 'Historia de Jepthe' (1645) brought the program to a well-tailored conclusion. Major soloist for the evening, Marguerite Paquet (alto) gave the traditionally tenor Historious part an impressively smooth and certain performance. Mr. Sorenson again delivered a fine solo...
...April 15 Directions '62 (ABC, 3-3:30 p.m.). The story of the Jewish quest for religious freedom, symbolized in the Exodus from Egypt and commemorated in the Passover. The Open Door (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). Tenor Jan Peerce, accompanied by Alfredo Antonini and the CBS Orchestra, sings songs marking the observance of Passover. Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 6-7:30 p.m.). Kim Hunter, James Daly and Dennis King in a play based on the trial of Jesus before Pontius Pilate and the freeing of Barabbas, the thief. Repeat. Color. The Twentieth Century...