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...Banner in its earliest published version (1814). The first edition turned out to have occasional variations in notation from the version in use today, betraying even more clearly the song's derivation from an 18th century hit tune called To Anacreon In Heaven. At the same time, as sung by the Hill Chorale, the slightly archaic harmonies had a classical dignity that suggested the effect the song may have had on those who heard it first...
Save for the Resnik spoof (Chacun a Bing's Gout, set to music from Die Fledermaus), the extracts on this disk are all unadulterated-and sung with the special fervor displayed by opera singers when their peers and rivals are in the wings. Soprano Leontyne Price brings a chaste passion to Dove Sono from The Marriage of Figaro. Soprano Montserrat Caballe and Tenor Placido Domingo, turning to Manon Lescaut, ask each other Tu, tu amore? Tu?, and answer in the way every Puccini fan dreams of hearing but rarely does. Awesome is the word for Birgit Nilsson...
...first dispatches were long on description and short on insight, understandable for any reporter seeing a strange and previously forbidden place for the first time. He zeroed in on modern buildings and primroses in Pyongyang's parks, and marveled at the Mao-like everpresence of Premier Kim Il Sung, whom Salisbury expects to interview before his three-week visit is over...
...enthusiastic reception of Don Giovanni was appropriate to the excellent over-all production. Mozart, sung and played well, is a pleasure for virtually every music lover. The Arts Festival has brought together a large group of Boston's finest musicians. To give Harvard students all the credit would undervalue the majority contribution from the non-Harvard people of professional and amateur status alike. In the end, the result only is important: more opera of this caliber can and should be produced with the excellent resources available...
Friend the Cat," an angry lonely song, whose half-pleading, half-sung chorus strikes the album's theme...