Word: tucker
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Funeral rites for Dr George H. Chase '96, dean emeritus, who died Saturday night, will be held in Memorial Church at 2 p.m. tomorrow, 1. Tucker Burr '79, who died the same evening, will be honored in privates services. Burr was one of three surviving members of his graduating class...
...otherwise intelligent music lover who does not like modern music and for the concert-goer who is looking for something different the Longy School's "Music of Today" series supplies an ideal remedy. Last Thursday, Gregory Tucker successfully presented the first of three concert-lectures devoted to contemporary music. The featured work was Arnold Schonberg's enigmatic Violin Concerto (Op. 36), the artists were Mr. and Mrs. Louis Krasner, and the result was one of the season's most important musical events...
...next concert-lecture in the series, dealing with Copland, Lamb, and Piston, will be given on February 14. I hope that Gregory Tucker and his colleagues will plan a better organized discussion period for future programs. An authoritative talk about the techniques and objectives of the composer would be much more rewarding than the brief question period which provided last Thursday's only dull moments...
...warm house," that its audiences "know the fine points of arias and give their applause with perception." Moreover, "the most beautiful voices in the world are here [in the U.S.] ... I have never heard a better Rigoletto than Leonard Warren, or a better Duke than Richard Tucker." And as for Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, a pride of the Vienna company, she now has the sad duty of breaking the word that the Met's new production (TIME, Jan. 7) is even better...
Thereafter, Mozart and a first-rate cast took over. There were no stars: Così is strictly an ensemble opera. But all hands -Eleanor Steber, Blanche Thebom, Patrice Munsel, Frank Guarrera, Richard Tucker, John Brownlee-somehow seemed to sing and look better than ever. They sang in understandable English, and carried themselves with the flawlessly sophisticated artificiality which Così, and Director Lunt, demanded...