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...Metropolitan Opera debut as Gilda in Rigoletto, the season's major event. "Ah, she is beautiful!" croons Pavarotti, her co-star. "So tall! And she has beautiful musicality, beautiful voice, beautiful phrasing." Leonard Bernstein, who chose Anderson for the new recording of his operetta Candide, likens her to Jennie Tourel, among others, in "the sense of vocal color, of the dramatic use of technique and the endless drive to work hard...
Died. Jennie Tourel, 63, diminutive, Montreal-born soprano star of the Paris Opéra-Comique who fled to the U.S. during World War II, dazzled Metropolitan Opera audiences with her unusual range (low G to high C) and linguistic fluency (nine languages) and during the 1950s emerged as one of the leading vocal recitalists in the U.S.; of lung cancer; in Manhattan...
...three cousins all played the bass, he took up the instrument at nine "without even knowing there were other instruments." He made such rapid progress that he soon ranged beyond the conventional approach to the bass. He studied with a cellist, a pianist and even with Singer Jennie Tourel ("the greatest influence on my phrasing and musical ideas"). After a 1962 appearance in one of Leonard Bernstein's televised Young People's Concerts, he started on a career of recitals and solo stints with major orchestras. This required him to pad out the skimpy repertory for bass...
CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). A visit to the Manhattan home and singing classes of Soprano Jennie Tourel for her opinions of "The Artist as Teacher...
Curious Whimper. The 50-minute work, performed without interruption, is more an oratorio than a symphony, with speaker (Bernstein's wife, Actress Felicia Montealegre), soprano (Jennie Tourel), the New England Conservatory Chorus, the Columbus Boychoir and a drastically altered orchestra: 17 string players were crowded off the platform to make way for a percussion section that had to man five timpani, three side drums, a bass drum, four kinds of cymbals, a tam-tam, three bongos, three temple blocks, a wood block, sandpaper blocks, rasp, whip, ratchet, triangle, maracas, claves, tambourine, chimes, glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone, celesta, piano and harp...