Word: week
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waiting in the wings for his entrance cue during a Metropolitan Opera performance of The Marriage oj Figaro last week, Tenor Charles Kullman (Don Basilic) suddenly realized that he was missing something: his voice. His vocal cords evidently affected by a lingering cold, Kullman rushed to the dressing room and started desperately croaking at Tenor Gabor Carelli, who was not scheduled to go on (in the role of Don Curzio) until the third act. Carelli looked up amiably from his newspaper. "Quit your kidding, Charlie," he said. When Kullman finally got his message across. Carelli hastily switched costumes and rushed...
...athlete in the history of Pennsylvania's Radnor High School was a tall (5 ft. 7½ in.) brunette with a booming tennis serve and a fine basketball hook shot. After she left Radnor, the brunette became one of the best lyric-coloratura sopranos in the world. Last week a busload of teachers journeyed to Manhattan to cheer the school's most famous alumna in a new kind of starring role. Young (24), shapely (36-24-36) Soprano Anna Moffo was making her debut at the Met in Verdi's La Traviata...
...three years Soprano Moffo has been riding high on the European opera and concert circuit. To U.S. opera buffs, she is known as the star of several fine recordings, including Madame Butterfly (RCA Victor) and Capriccio (Angel). As Verdi's consumptive heroine, she demonstrated last week that her acting is almost as good as her voice. Strikingly handsome in a hoopskirted, bare-shouldered, pink ball gown, she made the Violetta of Act I into a moving figure of feverishly hectic gaiety. As the opera progressed, the coquettish attitudes gave way gradually, until by the final act Violetta emerged...
Manhattan concert audiences last week heard fine performances of two unusual compositions that were widely different in style but unmistakably American in origin...
...premiere of Robert Kurka's Concerto for Marimba. Composer Kurka, Chicago-born son of Czech parents, went to work on his 22-minute concerto in 1956 at the suggestion of Marimbist Vida Chenoweth. completed the piece a year before his death of leukemia in 1957 at 35. Last week's performance, conducted by Richard Korn, featured Marimbist Chenoweth as soloist. A small woman (5 ft. 2 in.), she seemed dwarfed by her instrument-a 6-ft. tablelike frame supporting a graduated series of hardwood strips with a row of tubular resonators attached. But when she started to flail...