Word: vocalizings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Matthews are not in Manhattan; their subtle postures and cream-smooth notes are sadly needed. Of course, Marjorie Moss and Georges Fontana float through their waltz scene to threaten voidance of Pavlowa's lifelong lease on "incomparable." Madeline Gibson's demure loveliness forestalls unsympathetic accusations of vocal timidity. But with these exceptions there is no competent voice, no dexterous dancing in the entire revue...
Only partially appeased with this consoling thought, the infants tone down their vocal chorus to a mere whimper, and concentrate on the delectable vision conjured up by their mother's words. At last their vigil is rewarded and the familiar step of their progenitor echoes through the open transom. But as the door swings open upon the expectant group, one glance suffices to convey the dire truth that the father's quest has been in vain. Abstract knowledge is the only sustenance he has to offer in the eyes of the brave mother...
...having seen will forget the beauty of her as Sieglinde sitting still at the table listening half-hypnotized to Siegmund's narrative; the silver radiance of her as Ocatavian bringing in the rose; the iridescent tenderness of her Elsa; the white compassion of her Elizabeth. Critics carp at vocal imperfections, occasional explosive performances, but in the final reckoning they pale like small talk before the fact that operatic puppets are given life, that people who had hitherto small patience with "grand" opera go to Jeritza, pay top prices, listen and watch intently and go again...
...Talley trouble," meanwhile, has come to mean lack of temperament. The life she leads has been as much to blame. In it there have been vocal gymnastics, new languages for new operas, right living. There have been few books, few friends, no beaus. There have been the rigid standards bred by the First Christian Church of Kansas City, a public to be a little suspicious of, and a handful of haughty prima donna ways which have not helped her popularity...
...Friday night, December 6, the musicians will perform at Hingham and on Saturday night, December 15, they give their annual fall Cambridge concert in Brattle Hall. Inasmuch as the Vocal Club does not take part in the Yale concert, the Hingham affair launches the season officially...