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When she was growing up in New York, Cathy Berberian used to sing along with recordings of Lily Pons in The Bell Song and Basso Boris Chaliapin in The Song of the Flea-note for note, pitch for pitch. The vocal range she developed eventually settled into an astonishing reach...
The second premiere, performed by the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Thomas Schippers, was another matter. It was a cantata called Sept Répons des Ténèbres, and it impressively proved that Poulenc's last year, like his other 45 as a composer...
Schippers enriched his private memorial by playing the Poulenc Concerto for Organ in G Minor just before the perform ance of the Sept Répons. Having transferred keyboard notes to the foot pedals, he freed an arm for conducting, and with only one slip (a missed orchestral entry), he...
Sept Répons was one more reminder that Poulenc's genius lay more with choral music and songs than with instrumental music. His lyrical sensitivity to poetry led his songs into fragile moods that passed subtly from laughter into grief. "J'aime la voix humaine," he would...
Looking as vibrant as in her portrait by Marcel Vertes, Lily Pons, now a Dallas resident, essayed a summer comeback at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium. One critic praised the 57-year-old coloratura's "firm sense of rapport with the crowd," but the Times, although noting "flashes of...