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...again achieved an elegant musical interpretation, belting out a powerful and untamed voice as the D major song crescendoes to the joyful exclamation that the "maid of the mill is mine!" Unfortunately such bravado and courage soon dissipated as Nomura resorted to stroking our ears with a very throaty voix mixte--not fully singing and lapsing into half tone--in the later B and E tonal musings on death and despair of "Die liebe farbe" and "Des Baches Wiegenlied...
...Mystere Des Voix Bulgares. Sanders Theatre, 8:30 p.m. $19.50 plus $.50 restoration fee. Call 496-2222 for more information...
...MYSTERE DES VOIX BULGARES: VOL III (Fontana/Polygram). Voices, the name used by several women's choirs that sing traditional Bulgarian folk songs, has built a growing cult of listeners since its first U.S. release four years ago, and deservedly so. The a cappella harmonies use impossibly high pitches with exquisite precision. The effect is weird, beautiful and sometimes unearthly...
Score one for mystery. Score two, in fact: one for each volume of Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares. (Or, The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices to you, Rambo.) In 1987 the weirdest album to appear on the reliably eccentric British pop charts was the first volume of folk music recorded by this choir of two dozen Bulgarian women. Journals recorded approving, indeed awed, comments from the likes of George Harrison. The group caught on, and a record that had roughly the commercial potential of Botha: Live in the Transvaal! became a surprise hit. Released in America by Elektra/Nonesuch, the record...
...second one-acter, Pasatieri's before Breakfast, is considerably more successful. Adapted by Director Frank Corsaro from a play by Eugene O'Neill , it is a melodrama similar in style, if not in score, to Poulenc's La Voix Humaine. The setting is a grim Depression flat. Soprano Marilyn Zschau is preparing breakfast for her husband before leaving for her own job as a waitress. While she flops around the room in her slip, she carries on a one-way conversation with the silent and unseen spouse as he gets up and goes into the bathroom...