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...Herr denket" did, however, suffer slightly through being somewhat uniform in sound, especially since the entire soprano section sang the soprano aria, and all the men sang the tenor-bass duet, for no apparent reason. Part of the function of these solos is to break up the homogeneity of the choral sound, and though the chorus sang lightly and clearly enough to prevent their sounding rough or gross, the listener missed the delicate sound of individual voices singing ornate lines clearly intended for solo performance...
Conceived during the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, the 50-minute oratorio based on the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, is a highly personal memorial to the Nazis' victims. Scored for bass-baritone, double chorus, orchestra and string quintet, the pace in all but one of the ten movements is slow to slower. To sustain interest within such a restrictive format, the score trades on subtlety rather than splash, deftly plays the wistful mewings of the string quintet against the dense harmonies of the orchestra, intertwines exquisite vocal patterns like a kaleidoscope turning in slow motion. Brilliantly...
...phrase or two themselves. In this production, Robert Jones as the narrator, Alan Titus as Tancredi, and Evelyn Mandac as Clorinda all sang excellently, although some of Miss Mandac's entrances were a little breathy (possibly because she had to sing them while dying). The instrumentalists (string quartet, double bass and harpsichord) under the direction of Luciano Berio put life and warmth into a potentially very dull score...
...exiled genius in revolt against the bourgeois world, Ellmann notes that he "could not live outside the environment of family affection, badly as he acts within it." He fought hard for the advancement of his son, Giorgio, who aspired to be a singer (he became a middling successful bass) and devoted years to tending his daughter, Lucia, when she lapsed into schizophrenia...
Peggy Lucchesi, mother of three, hauls around two 35-lb, timpani and beats the big bass drum for the San Francisco Symphony. While most married symphony women practice the "offbeat rhythm method"-that is, plan their babies for delivery during the off-season-Peggy merrily pounds away on her drum practically right into the labor room. Before her last delivery, the boys in the band room were betting that the baby would be born with its hands clapped over its ears...