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...Glee Club will travel to Miami to sing at the meeting Friday night, G. Wallace Woodworth '24, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, announced yesterday. This year marks the first time that the Glee Club has sung at an A.H.C. conference...
...performances. Although del Monaco is the outstanding Italian dramatic tenor of our day, too much forcing has taken its toll on his voice and he can no longer sustain the line as well as he should. He is still effective in declamatory passages, but the many lyric moments are sung roughly. Tebaldi tends to be shrill as Leonora, although parts of her performance are controlled and lovely. The opera itself is uneven, so the singers must sometimes surpass their material. They have only partial success: contralto Giulia Simionato is fine, but basso Cesare Siepi is a disappointment. The best performance...
...poetry in this issue is not all obscure. John Hollander's songs, sung by a picaresque hero called Dick Dongworth, are the most notable contribution. Hollander combines a slight air of humor and intense irony to good effect. He varies his rhyme scheme to fit the special tone of each poem, and his rhythm fails only at one point in the last song. Less monumental, but equally effective, is "In Rainwoods," written by an anonymous poet, blasphemously dubbed Sam Hall. The rainwoods contain soft red leopards and a girl and a great sense of wonder...
...petite mezzo-soprano with long blonde hair, no fewer than six tenors (more tenors than Gutman had encountered in all his auditions in Seattle, Tulsa, the Twin Cities and Chicago put together). Almost every singer had got some of his or her basic experience singing in churches; some have sung with Denver's energetic young Greater Denver Opera Association. A few studied at Manhattan's Juilliard school...
When each had sung two numbers, Gutman retired to study cryptic marks on his score papers, then came back with his decision. It had been a "very good audition," he said. He found some language weakness: most of the German and Italian was "atrocious," but to his surprise he found the French excellent...