Word: withe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (London). Conducted by Georg Solti, this Rosenkavalier neatly obliterates its recorded competition. Three lush-voiced ladies (Régine Crespin, Helen Donath and Yvonne Minton) keep the story poised convincingly between spring and autumn and the music teetering tenderly on the verge of tears. The big...
Donizetti: Roberto Devereux (Westminster). Just as memorably melodic as Lucia but far more powerful. Beverly Sills' Queen Elizabeth has all the expected coloratura dazzle but with chest tones and a dramatic style that should raise her already formidable reputation several notches higher.
Henze: Three Cantatas (Deutsche Grammophon). Once a leading German avant-garde composer, Henze often writes mistily modern and weirdly beautiful music. In this score, German Soprano Edda Moser floats through the vocal stratosphere with astonishing ease, and demonstrates a bewildering range of sound and color.
That success has not been without its costs. When Ignatius Loyola founded the "Greg"* in 1551, he conceived of it as an intellectual citadel from which to battle the Reformation, and until 1966 it remained a bastion of authoritarian conservatism. Classes consisted of dry lectures in Latin, with no chance...
DISCIPLINE: With the arrival of feminine skirts on campus, the male seminarians' soutanes quickly vanished. In their place are typically collegiate "civvies": khaki pants, sweaters, windbreakers and sports jackets. Students may visit Rome's shops and restaurants. In the Greg's main building, a new snack bar...