Word: coloratura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to sound very much like, and sell even better than, its second. Every performance (reflecting the current boom in Manhattan show business) was a sellout. Many foreign singers would continue to be missed. Only new singer to raise a ripple of anticipation was the 18-year-old coloratura Patrice Munsel (TIME, Nov. 22), scheduled for a debut in Mignon. The Met's brightest stars this year, as last, were its conductors. The first week included an exquisitely polished Tristan (Sir Thomas Beecham), a brilliant Rosenkavalier (George Szell...
...ever played the game of U.S. concert management with a shrewder gambler's eye than pudgy, Russian-born Sol Hurok of Manhattan. Last week Hurok gambled $120,000 on one of the longest and prettiest shots of his career. She was a pert, dark-haired, 18-year-old coloratura soprano named Patrice Munsel. For his $120,000, Hurok got the rights to Patrice's concert and radio appearances for three years. On an operatic filly who has not yet run her maiden race, that was tall betting...
...only 16 years old. The chorus here demonstrated a great deal of precision and feeling, perhaps because of the smaller group and the superior acoustics of Sanders Theatre. Margaret Codd Goldovsky sang the soprano solo, Ora Pro Nobis, from this aria, with great feeling and expression, although in the coloratura passages of the last movement she seemed still to lack that almost instrumental clarity and agility required for singing Mozart...
Bach Brandenburg Concertos (Busch Chamber Players; Columbia; 2 volumes, 27 sides). A reissue of a definitive and historic Bach recording. Trumpeter George Eskdale plays some of the most remarkable coloratura ever achieved on a brass instrument...
This spectacle went on all week at the Paramount. Many hepcats sat through most of the seven shows a day, chewing chocolate bars and put-up lunches. Some had passed up $8 in defense plants, $5 in grocery stores, etc., to hear the brazen coloratura of James's trumpet. Puzzled adults who asked what he had never got a clearer answer than: "It does something to your blood." Said the harassed Paramount switchboard operator: "Don't mention the name James...