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During the evenings at Gian Carlo Menotti's Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, the goings-on were grand. Festive Roman audiences wildly applauded Luchino Visconti's lavish production of La Traviata. The Messiah was sung on the moonlit Piazza del Duomo that it might satisfy all the senses. When the festival's sixth season neared its close, Founder Menotti looked ahead anxiously. "Everyone," he sighed last week, "expects exceptional productions. It's really tough figuring out how I will keep it up during the next ten years...
...revival of folk song), they are singing with hot-eyed fervor about police dogs and racial murder. Sometimes they use serviceable old tunes, but just as often they are writing new ones about fresh heroes and villains, from Martin Luther King to Bull Connor. In Chicago, integrationist songs are sung not only at the North Side's grubby Fickle Pickle but also in the Camellia House of The Drake. In a cocktail lounge in Ogunquit, Me., a college girl shouts out: "Sing something about integration." Seeger has done so before a crowd of 45,000 at the Boston Arts...
From the majesty of the "Dies irae" the music changed to the subdued strains of the "Tuba mirum," sung by the professional soloists Jeanette Scovotti, June Genovese, Walter Carringer, and George Hoffman. The chorus had some trouble going into this gentle mood at the beginning of the "Lacrimosa", but was highly inspiring when it reached the "Amen" at the end of the movement. While they did not retain this peak of grandeur on the "Domine Jesu" or in the fugue of the "Hostias," they recaptured it during the end of the "Hostias." The base was exceptionally superb during this part...
Oscar Brown Jr. Tells It Like It Is! (Columbia) and sings it like it ought to be. Brown mixes songs from the wreckage of his old Kicks & Co., new originals, and some good Charles Aznavour tunes to make a richly original collection, sung with polish by the most inventive and imaginative pop entertainer around...
...Short but Brilliant Life of Jimmy Rodgers (RCA-Victor) presents 16 of Rodgers' good country songs, written and first recorded between 1928 and 1932, sung in Rodgers' reedy voice to his own guitar accompaniment. Rodgers died at 35, and to those who take his songs seriously, ballads such as Whippin' that Old TB have all the frustrating terror of a suicide note...