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...young at 46 to be urgently in need of one, Composer-Librettist Gian Carlo Menotti (The Consul, The Saint of Bleecker Street) was asked how he would phrase his own obituary. Much moved at the thought of his passing, Menotti ad-libbed a lyric that might be sung to one of his own scores: "Last night while he was having dinner, he suddenly vanished without a whimper, into thin air. A few drops of perfume fell on the table, and a heavenly choir was heard in the distance. As nothing has been heard from him since, we presume that...
...John Allison; Ficker LP). An unusual collection of U.S. folk songs compiled and performed by Folk Singer John Allison. They range from Gypsy Davy, the sprightly tale of a highborn lady's seduction by a hot guitarist, to the blues-flavored account of the Titanic's sinking, sung by World War I troops crossing the submarine zone...
...summer evenings in Italy, the crowds jostle into the famous outdoor arenas-Rome's Baths of Caracalla, Naples' Arena Flegrea-to inhale great draughts of Verdi. Puccini, Rossini and Menotti. But better opera is sung every summer in the country's storied opera houses-to empty stalls and batteries of condenser microphones. Up and down the peninsula last week the record companies were tuning the mikes -to the golden sounds that will burst on buyers' ears next season...
...recordings of Orpheus and Eurydice break with tradition by casting a male singer as Orpheus, normally sung by a contralto. (Gluck himself wrote the role for a male contralto, later rearranged it for tenor in Paris, where castrati singers were frowned upon.) Of the two versions, Epic's (in French) is more authentic historically, but less effective, chiefly because Canadian Tenor Leopold Simoneau's silver-hued voice seems less moving in the role of the suffering Orpheus than the lyric baritone of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, imaginatively cast by Decca in its German-language version. The supporting casts...
With the exceptions of Brown, and Misses Kalkhurst and Linch, all have participated in previous Players productions according to Claman. Brown had the lead in the "Tree on the Plain". Miss Kalkhurst has sung Gilbert and Sullivan with the Provincetown Players, and Miss Linch "proved herself an excellent singer in Menotti's 'Medium'," he added...