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Welcoming the Radcliffe singers back, the Glee Club sang Two Odes of Horace with a truly gorgeous tone. Composer Randall Thompson is a well-known expert at choral writing, and when his music is sung well the result is memorable. The concert closed with Trois Chansons by Ravel. These are a kind of musical sandwich, with a lovely lyrical piece between two witty, ironic and bitter-sweet choral songs. The performances were again excellent. If Woodworth can train his full choruses as well as he has trained the smaller groups, audiences will really have to sit up this spring...
Alfred Deller, Counter-tenor, sings these works now usually sung by contraltos, but in Bach's day by boys. Deller has an amazingly pure voice, much like a child's in quality yet capable of handling the difficult Bach vocal line. He is accompanied by a small Baroque orchestra, and the combination is probably quite close to the music's original sound. The recording is difficult to appreciate on the first hearing, but the result is a wonderful kind of impersonal exaltation. (Bach Guild...
...intercept passes from forward tenors without missing a note. For a while, she learned a role a month for TV's Opera Cameos, finally hit the big time two seasons ago when she sang Donna Elvira in the San Francisco Opera's Don Giovanni ("the most exquisitely sung aria of the evening," wrote one critic...
...legendary in so short a time. Producing romantic bandit heroes sometimes seems to be a major industry in Sicily, Sardinia and southern Italy. But bandits, though they make news nearly every week, aren't what they used to be-and Musolino's reputation survives in ballads still sung. A young woodcutter of Aspromonte, a craggy region near the toe of the Italian boot, Musolino, like Robin Hood, turned outlaw first (so it was said) when he was falsely accused of attempted murder. Two years later, he escaped from jail, and for the next three years conducted...
...conductor is only 20-odd feet from his cast. On TV it is twice as hard: the conductor is in another room. This week the NBC Opera Theatre televised its 38th opera production, Mozart's masterpiece, The Magic Flute, two hours of soaring music and symbolic drama, beautifully sung and bewitchingly visualized in color...