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Rancho Notorious (RKO Radio) is not meant to be taken seriously-even though it begins with a rape-murder and ends with Marlene Dietrich dying nobly for her fellow man. Director Fritz Lang has shaped his Technicolor western in the form of a cowboy ballad: the plaintive lyrics, sung by William Lee, set the stage for Arthur Kennedy's far-ranging manhunt of the foul fiend who dishonored and killed his sweetheart (Gloria Henry...
...that the Amherst Glee Club had to sing Friday night on the same program as the Radcliffe Choral Society. Had it sung by itself or with practically any other woman's chorus, it might have made a fine impression. But compared to Radcliffe's near-professional performance, the Amherst boys just barely...
Casting for the opera has been completed and the role of Semeie, a mortal who enraptures the Greek God Jupiter, will be sung by Anne English of the New England Conservatory of Music. Jupiter is to be played by Robert Peters of the Longy School of Music, and Margaret Roy, also of the Conservatory, will take the role of Juno, Jupiter's jealous wife...
Copland's settings for twelve poems of Emily Dickinson were especially enjoyable because they were sung by Katherine Hansel, one of the finest vocalists to appear in Cambridge in months. A soprano, her wide range made her sound at home even in the lowest alto registers. She has a surety of pitch that enables her to make skips of as much as two octaves without noticeable effort. Add to this her spacious tone and fine powers of interpretation, and the result is a singer who would make even bad music sound good...
...those critics who call Vaughan's Williams' music austere. This is virtuoso piece with colorful orchestral effects and dramatic abandon for all concerned. The performers, supposedly the largest assemblage of musicians in Sanders Theatre's history, sounded truly jubilant. The final "Prayse ye the Lorde's name," sung fortissimo with cymbals and brass blaring in the orchestra, drew cheers even before the theatre had stopped reverberating. Richard Sogg '52, deserves special credit for his energetic playing of the exacting, and exhausting, piano part...