Word: contraltos
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Conductor Stanger shows great enthusiasm with the way in which director G. Wallace Woodworth '24 has prepared the 100-voice Harvard Radcliffe Glee Club for Reach's Magnificent." Blistering the Glee Clubs as solo sits are contralto since Albert, who has sung under Serge Koussevitsky, to nor Hugh Cuenod, soprano Eleanor Davis, and bass Paul Tibbetts...
Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m. NBC-TV). I'm Still Alive, with Burgess Meredith and Haila Stoddard. ^ Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest: Contralto Marian Anderson...
...Greek Contralto Elena Nikolaidi (Amneris), who will sing at the Met later in the season, gave the same expert, big-voiced performance of the role that had helped her win a reputation at the Vienna State Opera...
Under its new conductor, Russell Stanger, the orchestra will perform December 6 and 7 in Sanders Theater, in a program which features the Glee Club singing Bach's Magnificat. Two of the soloists for this performance will be Eunice Alberts, contralto, who opened and closed last summer at Tanglewood with Serge Koussevitsky, and Paul Tibbetts, who sung the bass role in the past two Orchestra-Glee Club performances of the Messiah...
...first few bars of a Peruvian folk chant called High Andes, the full-figured Peruvian girl onstage rumbled roundly at the bottom of contralto range. Then, to their astonishment, she soared effortlessly up a full four octaves, began trilling like a canary at the top of coloratura. At the end of her first song, the audience was still too surprised to raise more than warm applause. The second, Tumpa (Earthquake), brought cheers; after the third, a pyrotechnical Inca Hymn to the Sun, the applause and cheers swelled to a roar for encores. Guest Conductor Arthur Fiedler, who had a plane...