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...French king. Moulinié was court composer to Gaston-Jean-Baptiste d'Orléans, Louis XIll's brother and enemy, and was persona non grata at Louis' court. Moreover, trumpets were not used as musical instruments until the 18th century, and Vivat Rex was never sung at the end of a mass; it was shouted three times before the mass began. Raugel had suspected Father Martin's "discovery," but had not been stirred to investigate until the spectacle at St.-Denis. That, he said, "was too much. The whole world was listening. The honor...
...versatile Mr. Chabay returned to sing Bartok arrangements of five Hungarian folk songs. These range from the pathetic irony of In Jail to the half-cheerfulness of Dance Song, and the tenor sung them all with such finesse and sympathy that he was called back for an encore...
...composers whose names adorn the proscenium arch of the Metropolitan Opera, Christoph Willibald Gluck is the oldest (1714-87), the least honored, the least sung.* Four of his 42 operas have been performed at the Met, but only at very rare intervals. Last week Gluck's Alcestis got a performance that restored some of the proper shine to his name...
...difficult to single out the outstanding numbers. The Morph Song, cleverly sung by Barbara Tulloch '54, William Monteith '53, Amory Sommarpia '52, and Norwood Gove '53 was excellent, as were Peter Coyne's Jumping to Conclusions and Cynthia Green's I Dreamed I Went to a Jolly-up. The latter was particularly distinguished by Ashenhurst's choral arrangement...
Casting for the opera has been completed and the leading feminine roles, Semele and Juno, will be sung by Anne English and Margaret Roy, both of the New England Conservatory of Music. The part of Jupiter is to be played by Robert Peters of the Longy School of Music...