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...Ernest Ansermet, conductor of 1'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, deftly evokes visions of the Poe-like castle and moon-bright grotto of Debussy's poetic opera. Musically light-textured, the opera is philosophically dark: early death is the destiny of the young lovers, appealingly sung by Dutch Soprano Erna Spoorenberg and French Tenor Camille Maurane...
...Motown. The best brown sound is, of course, that sung by Negroes. Last year 42 of the bestselling rock 'n' roll songs were produced by one man: Berry Gordy Jr., 35, who as head of Detroit's Motown Records, employs some 175 Negro artists. A former auto assembly-line worker, Gordy operates out of three adjoining shingle houses which bear the proud banner HITSVILLE, U.S.A. Beginning with a $700 loan six years ago, Gordy has built Motown into the nation's largest independent producer of 45-rpm records (1964 sales: 12 million records). Next to the Mersey sound, the "Motown...
...high that it sounds almost feminine, a fact that has all but locked out girl singers from the scores of surf groups performing on the West Coast. Beach Boys' songs, says Jack Good, producer of the rock 'n' roll TV show Shindig, "almost sound as if they were sung by eunuchs in the Sistine Chapel...
...laden theme in the basses sounded against a background of Nearer, My God, to Thee, softly played by a chamber ensemble isolated at the rear of the orchestra. Then the violins joined in with The Sweet Bye and Bye, intertwined with clashes of brass and drums and another hymn sung by an 18-voice chorus. The second movement, beginning with a blaring Marching Through Georgia, erupted into a cacophonous frenzy, while above and below individual instruments unconcernedly picked out Yankee Doodle and Turkey in the Straw, After a soothingly lovely third movement, the work ended with a majestic, anthem...
...compiling this 500,000-word chronicle, Historian Morison had the amiable notion of lacing the chapters with the appropriate music of each period. He starts off with an old Navajo war chant and the Salve Regina sung by the Spanish sailors bound for the New World. He ends, so many chants and prayers, hymns and ditties, marches and dirges later, with Camelot...