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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex (Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus conducted by the composer; narrated by Librettist Jean Cocteau; Columbia). The famed Greek tragedy, telescoped by Cocteau into six scenes and sung in Latin with French narration. With its craggy outlines and dry orchestration, the score has a faddish sound (it was written 26 years ago), but there are moments of drama and fetching lyrical beauty. The voice parts are heavily emphasized, often obscure the orchestra...
...Sung in a small Mexico City gallery last week, this serenade was the climax of a long and happy evening for the frail, dark-eyed woman lying there in a great four-poster bed. She was Frida Kahlo, invalid wife of Muralist Diego Rivera and Mexico's best woman painter (TIME, Nov. 14, 1938). For her first public show in Mexico, 200 friends, fellow artists and critics had turned out to sing, sip Scotch, and applaud her delicate surrealistic pictures...
Martyn Green's Gilbert & Sullivan (Lehman Engel, conductor; Columbia). Sixteen favorite songs from eight of the famous operettas, sung in clipped accents by the ranking expert...
Other new releases: Nine Beethoven bympnomes (Victor), with Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony (hand somely packaged at $52.40); Bach and Handel Arias (London), sung by Contralto Kathleen Ferrier with the London Philharmonic, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé-Complete Ballet (London), with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Geneva Motet Choir conducted by Ernest Ansermet...
...boundless energy, and 3) a shrewd sense of what is best for Rosalind Russell. Last week in Manhattan, she was again exhibiting all three as the star of Wonderful Town, the biggest hit of the Broadway season. Though she can neither sing nor dance, Ros has confidently and energetically sung & danced her way into the most enthusiastic rave reviews in recent memory. The Times's Brooks Atkinson, who declared that Rosalind "radiates the genuine comic spirit," demanded that she be elected President of the U.S. The Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr happily surrendered to her "open-armed abandon...