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Bruckner: Mass No. 3 in F Minor (Berlin Symphony, St. Hedwig's Cathedral Choir, Karl Forster conducting; Pilar Lorengar, soprano, Christa Ludwig, alto, Josef Traxel, tenor, Walter Berry, bass; Angel) is a majestic work. Forster matches the full voice of his orchestra to the choral glories of the Mass, and only Soprano Lorengar's obvious struggling brings him down to earth again...
Provocative Fact. The eleven played a difficult repertory that tested all their talents-the overture of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Chopin's Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, a recitative and duet for tenor and soprano from Mozart's Don Giovanni. Then, as a harrowing surprise treat, each was given the score to Tadeusz Baird's Czetry Eseje-a contemporary work none of them had seen before-and told to be on the podium in four minutes, ready to conduct. Six survived. Said Chief Judge Bernstein darkly: ''One provocative fact: there...
Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Highlights from Verdi's Otello, with Tenor James McCracken, Soprano Gabriella Tucci and Baritone Robert Merrill...
...last year. The Blue Notes, four of whom are also in Gary Berger's band, played five jazz standards with astonishing competence; there arrangements were often original, their ensemble work sharp and clean. But individual solos are the test of small-group jazz, and the Blue Notes' soloists shone. Tenor Saxophonist Ben Friedman, a real crowd-pleaser, is technically master of his instrument. His best solo, on Thelonius Monk's Straight, No Chaser, was a honking, exuberant anthology of tenor sax styles, jumping from Johnny Hodges to Ornette Coleman to John Coltrane with deftness and humor. Friedman is strongly influenced...
When he left the Metropolitan Opera in 1957, Tenor James McCracken was understandably bitter. In four black years at the Met, he had been all but buried beneath a mountain of spear-carrier costumes. "I was pretty disappointed." he says now, "but I was determined to come back singing the great parts." Last week McCracken came back, and in grander style than most spear carriers could dream of: he sang Otello in the premiere of a lavish new Met production...