Word: vocal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Redneck radicals are more vocal, more vociferous in the Southern Baptist Convention than are the moderate majority...
...Mezzo-soprano, bright in color and quite brilliant at the top, though without the excitingly "chesty" low notes that are the stock-in-trade of so many mezzos. Her singing of the Spanish group was of course expert--all done with lovely tone, the right moods struck and the vocal difficulties encompassed. Yet there was none of that real vibrance and passion which alone can make these songs engaging, none of the personal excitement provided-if we can judge by her recordings-by the great Conchita Supervia...
Campbell Most Vocal...
...most vocal of the Republican challengers is Lee J. Campbell, who has been forced to spend much of his time convincing people that there are two Campbells in the race. Campbell has drawn many disgruntled Democrats into his organization and has been campaigning steadily in the district for several weeks...
...strange empty spots. Monumentum, composed in 1960 on Gesualdo's four-hundredth birthday, is essentially an alteration for chamber music of three of Gesualdo's madrigals. Even if one makes allowances for what was missing on Friday, Stravinsky's version sounded sadly disjointed in comparison with the original vocal settings if the madrigals. Stravinsky achieves coloring effects-alternating strings and horns in block chords in the fourth movement, for example-but loses the feeling of flow beneath his startling harmonic changes. To juxtapose distantly related harmonies is no longer surprising, and becomes marvelous only when the voices making...