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...Perhaps they were well off not knowing. In too many English translations attempted by U.S. opera troupes in recent years, the English words (if they could be heard at all) only revealed the silliness of the librettos. This week RCA Victor is releasing a series of records entitled Arias Sung and Acted which present the dramatic contents of selected arias together with the original words: first, well-known actors act out the scenes in English, then the music starts up and big-name artists sing them in the original language...
...Popes has recognized the boy's voice as the proper vehicle for religious music because of its innocent quality. The early composers of the polyphonic period wrote for boys and men, not for men and women. So it's my belief that this music can only be sung by boys and men, and I wanted to find out how to train them. That was my chief problem, and I think I dug it up." Exceptional voices are not the secret of what Father O'Malley has accomplished with the choir (he has been with it ever since...
John Davison's Four Songs to Poems by George Herbert might have made a better impression had they been transposed. Although Jean Lunn '55 had sung Father Woollen's songs well, the Davison selections lay mostly in her weak upper-middle range; breathy tone lent little conviction to his spare melodic lines...
Romans found the choral music interesting, occasionally quietly melodious,and beautifully sung. They gave the work respectful applause, although they found the production as a whole just too much to take in, and never quite understandable. Old (61) Darius Milhaud, who was on hand for the occasion, had no such reservations. "I was so satisfied," he said, "that I couldn't suggest any change...
Other notable new releases: Bach's St. Matthew Passion, sung by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and soloists under the direction of Sir Ernest MacMillan (Victor-Bluebird) ; Delius' A Mass of Life, performed by the Royal Philharmonic, with choir and soloists under Sir Thomas Beecham (Columbia) ; Mozart's Concerto in A Major, played by Clifford Curzon with the London Symphony under Josef Krips (London); Mozart's Symphony No. 40, played by the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini (Victor...