Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What the Met has mounted, in addition to a first-rate vocal ensemble consisting of Jon Vickers, Christa Ludwig and Shirley Verrett, is a true theatrical spectacular. The colossal scale is reinforced by eliminating the frame provided by the famous gold curtain. The audience sees the vast set as it enters-just as it would in Hair. Musically, the opera is a series of epic climaxes; there is, for instance, no overture. Except to the most committed Berlioz aficionado, part one is a stark musical landscape with none of the lyricism that is to follow. To compensate-and in effect...
...result, Amtrak's critics are growing increasingly vocal. The National Association of Railroad Passengers is trying to block congressional reappointment of Roger Lewis as Amtrak president this year. NARP, a Washington, D.C., group that lobbied for the creation of Amtrak, accuses the line's executives of kowtowing to the private railroads that allow Amtrak to use their tracks. NARP charges that Amtrak trains were illegally delayed 2,398 times by private-line freight trains last November and December. "Amtrak is both fantastic and terrible," says NARP Chairman Anthony Haswell. "In terms of re-creating a public enthusiasm...
...singers, and every year he manages to bring it off. With a string of three major successes behind him, this year Moshell tempted fate and selected Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, a work demanding an orchestra of virtuosi and a cast capable of tossing off the most treacherous vocal lines without strain. His most outrageous choice, it is his most outrageous success...
Thoughts of the movement's achievements animate the sprightly, gray-haired Smith graduate. Since 1970, however, she has been noticeably less vocal and many consider her feminist stance passe...
Composed when Beethoven, never a particularly graceful vocal composer, had long been deaf, the Missa Solemnis reflects its composer's implacable unwillingness to make allowances for performers' limitations. The soprano part, abounds with sustained Forte. As and B flats. Often called upon to sing Fortissimo for long passages, Adams's choir coped with their hard-to-negotiate vocal lines courageously, and by and large, successfully. The balance was usually fairly good, with the men tending to outweigh the women at times. A large measure of the success of this performance was due to the sensitivity with which the choir responded...