Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Thus began a career that took her to TV, the concert circuit, and last May to Carnegie Hall. She has half a dozen briskly selling albums on the market, will appear as the murderess Nancy in the forthcoming film version of Faulkner's Sanctuary. What distinguished her from the...
On Campus. Booked for concerts for a season in advance and for a midwinter European tour, Odetta now lives in Chicago, tries to keep nightclub dates to a minimum and sing as often as possible on college campuses, where she feels most at home. She learns most of her songs...
Strauss: Die Fledermaus (Hilde Gueden, Erika Köth, Regina Resnik, Giuseppe Zampiere; the Vienna Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan; London, 3 LPs). This otherwise fine recording of the imperishable operetta classic offers a strange side effect. One moment, the listener is tapping his feet to the most tap-pable...
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 (London Symphony, under Sir Malcolm Sargent; Everest). A first stereo recording of one of the most ebullient, eccentric and delightful of Shostakovich's works. When the composer's orchestra-raucous, slapdash and happy-moves into battle, the effect is of a regiment under fluttering...
Frank Glazer Plays Musical Autographs (Concert-Disc). The musical calling cards of the great composers as they were inscribed in various souvenir albums. Included are Mozart's Marche Funebre del Signor Maestro Contrapunto (Funeral March of Master Counterpoint), a mock-heroic exercise for his pupil, Babette Ployer; Beethoven'...