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LEONTYNE PRICE: PRIMA DONNA, VOL. 2 (RCA Victor). Scores of recital albums are released each year, one after the other, boasting unknown, known and overly known singers rendering familiar collections of pop arias. Such banality is quite beneath Leontyne Price. She adorns the measliest note with proud individuality, and in this recording caresses and enriches works ranging from Handel's Care selve through Weber's Leise, leise to Puccini's Senza mamma...
Another experience, in West Virginia, was of a different nature. At a resort a young girl named Donna asked me to read her fortune. Her face in no way revealed her distress, but through her palm and in talking to her I learned that by age 15 she had already made five suicide attempts and was desperate for help and advice. We talked for over four hours, and I honestly doubt now that there will ever be a sixth attempt. In any event she decided to obtain psychiatric help. I am not trying to credit myself with a miraculous cure...
Dolores Stewart, 33, of Cambridge, and Donna Happel, 22, of Boston, both working inside the lab when the explosion occurred, were treated for burns at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Now at Stillman Infirmary, they were unavailable for comment, but hospital spokesmen said they were "fairly comfortable" and "doing well...
Hollywood really knows how to make a guy welcome. Barbra Streisand, Jack Lemmon, Steve Allen, Lucille Ball, Pierre Salinger, Gene Kelly, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Merle Oberon, Fred Astaire, Ava Gardner, Omar Sharif, Milton Berle, Danny Thomas, Mario Thomas, David Niven, Alan Jay Lerner, Donna Reed, Gregory Peck, Natalie Wood, Andy Williams, Tom Smothers, Don Adams and Shirley MacLaine-all of them, plus about 400 others, paid $250 per couple to do honor to Paris Couturier André Courrèges, 44, at a showing of his new collection in Los Angeles. Courreges could only assume that their presence...
...come to grief on its melodic precipices because they lacked the bel canto technique, emotional projection, and soaringly powerful voice that the title role requires. The 19th century Soprano Lilli Lehmann said it was easier to sing three Brünnhildes than one Norma, and the great French Prima Donna Pauline Viardot was so obsessed with the difficulties of the part that the last word she spoke on her deathbed was "Norma." Maria Callas has scaled the role, though rarely without lapses along the way, and often with a sense of straining bravely beyond her vocal limits...