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...French diction, but otherwise the Philips cast seems nearly perfect. Tenor Jon Vickers' heroic-sounding Aeneas has both muscle and gentleness; Mezzo-Soprano Josephine Veasey sings Dido with a burnished-bronze quality that can range from love to outrage. As Cassandra, Soprano Berit Lindholm is splendidly equipped to trumpet the doom of Troy, even if her voice is a bit too high for this low-ranging role...
...excess floridity or overblown style which is fatal in a Bach performance. Miss Valente and the orchestra gave a highly correct interpretation of the work, yet no one devoid of feeling. The work, originally composed for the Lutheran services on the fifteenth Sunday after Trinity, contains two elaborate trumpet solos, which Jeffrey Stern handled unusually well...
Even the Soviet press tuned in with a sweet note for the world of music's unrivaled Gabriel. "The King of Jazz with a golden trumpet" was Sovietskaya Kultura's tribute to Louis Armstrong, who reached 70 last week. Back home, many of the big names of jazz joined well-wishers at Los Angeles' 6,500-seat Shrine Auditorium for a brassy birthday bash, and somebody baked an 11-ft., $1,500 cake. "The biggest thrill I ever had in my life being honored by these cats," said the Satch, visibly moved...
...Shaw planned. Ritchard, however, has decided to offer us an enticing appetizer. We hear from one direction a B-flat fanfare for solo trumpet-rather lonely and Coplan-desque in effect-answered from elsewhere by woodwinds. Then, accompanied by some drummers. Ritchard in full general's regalia strides in and delivers a short prologue extracted from Shaw's lengthy opening stage direction. There is no objection to this, for Shaw was characteristically unable to keep from putting some of his best work-often quite irrelevant-into his prefaces, stage directions, and notes...
Last week, to take command, Arthur Goldberg came over the horizon blowing a trumpet muted with the first note that he ventured. The owlish, dignified former Supreme Court Justice, hoping that he could summon broad Democratic support to challenge Nelson Rockefeller, began his crusade instead with only a narrow primary victory. He defeated Howard Samuels, an attractive upstate plastics millionaire who has been a frequent office seeker, by 45,000 votes in an election for which only 26% of the state's enrolled Democrats roused themselves to vote. Samuels campaigned strenuously in person and spent lavishly on television. After...