Word: leonard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...VICTOR VOCAL SERIES. Maybe they weren't better in the old days, but these digitally remastered recordings make a strong case that the jet plane and overbooked schedules are enemies of vocal grace. The first issues in this new project include Marian Anderson, Leonard Warren, Rosa Ponselle, Tito Schipa and Jussi Bjoerling. The Warren disk is an oddity, recorded live on a 1958 tour of the Soviet Union, where the baritone's dark, sexy voice knocked 'em dead. Ponselle's sublime vocal poise lights great Verdi arias and ditties like When I Have Sung My Songs...
...self-governing orchestra. Salonen, whose photogenic, blond good looks are sure to be an asset in image-conscious Los Angeles, is even more adventurous. "The Salonen appointment in Los Angeles indicates an orchestra possibly trying to change the image of what an orchestra might be about," says Leonard Slatkin, 45, the innovative conductor of the St. Louis Symphony...
MAKEUP: Charlotte J. Quiggle (Chief); Eugene F. Coyle (International); Leonard Schulman...
...civil rights movement gestated in Southern black churches. Most important U.S. publications failed to take much notice. But Flip Schulke persevered by contracting with black-owned Ebony and Jet. With the deployment of troops in Little Rock in 1957 and the rise of civil disobedience, the work of Schulke, Leonard Freed, Dan Weiner and others received wide exposure...
MAKEUP: Charlotte J. Quiggle (Chief); Eugene F. Coyle (International); Leonard Schulman...