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Particularly pleasing was the woman's chorus in the final section. The sung passages did not sound like the usual half-muttered versions so dear to most conductor's hearts, but rather had a youthfulness and brightness that went well with Senturia's straightforward interpretation...
...which immediately follows it. Fare Thee Well is a moving declaration of a lover's farewell and vow to faithfulness, and Miss Baez's innocence and simplicity of delivery seem to embody that feminine virtue. Equally convincing, however, is the latter song, a ballad of a fallen woman, sung to a Negro tune widely known as Black Girl...
...Friday night Joan Baez and Eric von Schmidt sang folk songs in Agassiz Theater, under the aegis of the Harvard Liberal Union. Young Liberals hoping to hear even one "song of social protest" were disappointed, for the program was arranged under the widely-held and peculiar assumption that everything sung by a folk singer (even essentially conservative songs like many of the ones Miss Baez sings) partake in some way of the yeasty liberal mythos...
...classical" numbers with greater skill than it does Ten Thousand Men of Harvard. This, of course, is attributable to the quality of the music, and it would be ridiculous to sing the Veritas March with the same delicacy necessary for a Monteverdi madrigal. If the football songs are not sung with the highest artistic quality, they are at least rendered with a great deal of spirit...
...introduction to the opera's music, be forewarned that the singers, all from the Bolshoi Opera Company, while generally competent, lack greatness. The tenors, Golitzin and Andrei, are sung by men with light voices that are just barely under control. Khovansky and Dossifey are handled by baritones of first rank and musical sensitivity who make the most of the eloquent passages that occasionally come their...