Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...correct here. As Oedipus, Archie Epps displayed a dazzling agility with the intricate melodies in an interpretation of Oedipus that communicated pathos and feeling rather than pride and firmness. As Tiresias, Bentley Layton had warmth and resonance, too, but made the jagged melodic line too fluid. Lacking great vocal strength, he presented a too apologetic Tiresias. The result of both solos was closer to the personal expressiveness of Carissimi's Jeptha than the square, forthright objectivity of Stravinsky's score...
Laos, Cuba, Africa continue to boil. Mobs riot in Seoul, Black Muslims rally in Chicago, TV is bad, even baseball declines. Everywhere the have-nots are vocal about their anxiety to have, and the haves are doubly anxious to hang on to what they have. Is it any wonder that the comfortable U.S. is afflicted by fear of the unknown future...
...libraries and other study areas are available and supports myths about the academic character of the seventh day that the Faculty has long since ceased to honor. The Administration, indeed, has been forced to espouse a sort of conspiracy theory whereby requests for change are the work of a vocal minority that does not represent the true will of the undergraduate...
TWENTIETH CENTURY CHAMBER AND VOCAL MUSIC. The Adams House Music Society will sponsor a concert of works by Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Ives, Ruggles and Varese. The performers: Dorothy Crawford, soprano; Bentley Layton '63, baritone; Cynthia Carpenter, flute; Jean Louis Bourgeois '63, clarinet; Gregory Biss '64, piano; and Bruce Archibald, piano. Junior Common Room; 4:30 P.M. Free, and open to the public...
...more aware that this great Swedish tenor died when he still was near the top of his form. His battle of high notes with Turandot at the end of their last duet (itself the one truly exciting moment in Alfano's scoring) is a most extraordinary display of vocal power. His lyric rendition of much of the first act music makes his Calaf more sympathetic and more credible than any other I have heard...