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Turk in Albany. Back in Nassau County he was a buoyant young lawyer who made friends and influenced politicians easily. A gregarious extravert, he liked to sing in his high tenor and to mystify people with his parlor magic tricks. He was soon well known around the county, and at 26 he went off to Albany as a Republican assemblyman. Together with a group of like-minded Young Turks, he helped overthrow the speaker, one Irving M. Ives (now U.S. Senator), and replace him with Oswald Heck, who, nearly 20 years later, is still speaker...
...some contestants an eventual chance to sing at the Met. For its part the Met gets an annual look at the best talent in the U.S., has in the Auditions' 16 years panned such vocal gold as Soprano Eleanor Steber, Baritones Leonard Warren and Robert Merrill, Tenor Albert Da Costa...
...brought an unfailingly lyrical voice to the long and taxing role of Susan B. Anthony. Her acting convincingly projected the courage and warmth of the suffragette. She received solid support from Malcolm Ticknor as Jo the Loiterer. The possessor of a considerable comic talent, Ticknor also displayed a strong tenor voice. The biggest voice in the cast, however, belonged to Herbert Gibson, who played Daniel Webster with a wonderful mock dignity. In smaller parts, John Morabito gave an amusing portrayal of the love-sick but proper John Adams, while Sylvia Skolnick enlivened the role of a militant feminist, Jenny Reefer...
...best as Papageno, the comical birdman; partly thanks to Ruth and Thomas Martin's competent translation, he put across his role with almost Broadway-like punch. Soprano Lucine Amara (Pamina) sang beautifully, and Roberta Peters (Queen of the Night) did her bell-like best despite a cold. But Tenor Brian Sullivan (Tamino) was dry-voiced and stiff-backed; Basso Jerome Hines, while he hit all of Sarastro's low notes, failed to be really moving. Not one of the slim, attractive Americans could match the musical excitement so often provided by the Met's derided, plumpish divas...
Alfred Deller, Counter-tenor, sings these works now usually sung by contraltos, but in Bach's day by boys. Deller has an amazingly pure voice, much like a child's in quality yet capable of handling the difficult Bach vocal line. He is accompanied by a small Baroque orchestra, and the combination is probably quite close to the music's original sound. The recording is difficult to appreciate on the first hearing, but the result is a wonderful kind of impersonal exaltation. (Bach Guild...