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...right," said Beverly Sills, confessing to stage fright. On an unfamiliar stage last week, the Brooklyn-born soprano became an honorary doctor of music in Harvard Yard, along with Mstislav Rostropovich, the Russian cellist. "It was much more nerve-racking than any performance," said Beverly. "Maybe I should have sung instead." Doctor Beverly joshed Husband and Harvard Alumnus Peter Greenough saying, "I'm a Harvard man just like the other Greenoughs." Then she referred to her son Bucky who is mentally retarded: "I hoped my little boy would go to Harvard too one day. But he never will...
Since then, she has sung most of the roles written for lighter soprano, both lyric. and coloratura. In the process, she has come to be regarded by critics as one of the world's three or four operatic "superstars." She will soon make her debut with the Metropolitan Opera...
...film is divided into three stories and a musical interlude, a lilting evocation of the Belle Epoque in a song sung by Jeanne Moreau. The episodes are introduced by Renoir himself, standing next to a miniature theater whose curtain rises and falls in formal punctuation. The Last Christmas Eve, the opening episode, is dedicated to Hans Christian Andersen. The curtain goes up on a wistful tale of two beggars, an old man and his aging inamorata who pass Christmas Eve down by the Seine. It is a fragile story, easy enough to grind into sentimentality, but Renoir makes it true...
...right way turned out to be the country music he had known and sung since childhood. The ex-con who had spent seven of his first 23 years locked up went on to become Country Superstar Merle Haggard, who could mesmerize one crowd after another by singing...
...sopranos-or a Lynn Anderson land of nasal chirpiness-that rule out not only women's lib but any other kind of defiance. In the past, country lyrics have been astonishingly repressive. Blind loyalty to husband, parents, even political leaders has been a common theme. When men have sung about women, the subject (always excepting long-suffering Mother) has often been the pain, not the pleasure...