Word: vocalizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have grown up to be stars in their own highly specialized orbits. John Reardon is one of them. In many ways, moreover, he typifies the new qualities necessary to survive in opera today. He is good-looking. He acts superbly. He will sing nearly anything that lies within his vocal range. He is also willing to learn the most complicated role in - by old-fashioned standards - nothing flat. This summer at Santa Fe, he is doing two American premieres (The Devils and Gian Carlo Menotti's Help! Help! The Globolinks) as well as Mozart...
Famous prima donnas are apt to regard a bout with contemporary opera as roughly equivalent to a gargle with sulphuric acid. Modern composers, singers say, don't know how to write. They ruin voices by demanding odd and un-vocal sounds. Though this attitude is widespread, there is evidence that it is less a matter of fact than fashion. Birgit Nilsson, though she sings no contemporary opera at all, points out that composers are usually ahead of performers. Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, she observes, was abandoned as un-performable, "yet nowadays no dramatic soprano can be considered...
Satire is currently in such short supply that Downey has acquired a small but vocal following, who seem to regard him as a kind of cinematic Rabelais. The title is his strictly by default. In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Or at least some kind of prince...
...première by Czechoslovakia's Ján Cikker. For chamber music buffs there will be Liederabende by Baritones Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Hermann Prey. Another series of chamber music by Bach, Gabrieli, Gesualdo, Telemann, Haydn, Mozart and Scarlatti will be presented by small instrumental and vocal ensembles in the elegant 18th century Nymphenburg Palace (through July...
...leader and military-oriented chairman of its Committee on Armed Services. The opposition leadership, more diffuse, fell to two men as widely esteemed within the Senate as Stennis: Republican John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky and Democrat Philip Hart of Michigan. Senator Edward Kennedy, originally among ABM's most vocal critics, was persuaded to mute his opposition in order not to offend colleagues jealous of the publicity he attracts...