Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everyone agreed with that estimate, but the feeling was widespread that the week's events had left the market stronger. Even the Dow theorists, a small but vocal group of analysts who were beginning to look for a bear market, saw signs of encouragement. According to the Dow theory, if the industrials break through their recent low, followed by the rails going through their last low, a bear market has started. Last week the industrials plunged through their low of Sept. 22, and the theorists suspensefully watched the rails slide down. The rails got right down to their fall...
...sing for 25 years, not ten years. I want to keep my Italian roles, because Italian caresses the voice while German exploits it." Moreover, Vickers refuses to jump into the role of Tristan, as his public and press have urged him to. No dramatic tenor, he reasons, really reaches vocal maturity until he is 38 or 39, and for a part as taxing as Tristan, it takes a few years beyond for "the artist to mature in the role...
...failure at its first performance in Vienna in 1805, it did not win an audience until 1814, when it was presented in completely revised form. The work is hampered by a naive plot, an inconsistency of style (the first act is virtually light opera, the second grand opera), and vocal parts of fiendish difficulty...
...touch: a huge grid of prison bars spanned the stage and rose slowly as the light came up on the liberation scene. But the rest of Director Herbert Grof's production was dull and conventional. As Leonore, the faithful wife, Norwegian Soprano Aase Nordmo Loevberg showed neither the vocal nor the dramatic power her taxing role demanded. In minor roles, Soprano Laurel Hurley and Tenor Charles Anthony were adequate as the jailer's daughter, Marzelline, and the turnkey Jacquino, and Bass Oskar Czerwenka contributed a strong, virile-voiced Jailer Rocco. But in their first-act quartet...
High Spirits! (The Four Lads; Columbia, mono and stereo). One of the nation's best vocal quartets swings with infectiously high spirits through a selection of familiar spirituals-Ring Them Chimin' Bells, Bound for Glory-giving each one a fresh sheen without sticky studio gloss...