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Last week, three out of the five top "folk" best-sellers on Billboard's weekly jukebox poll were sung by 29-year-old Eddy. His specialties are simple ballads like It's a Sin, I'll Hold You in My Heart, and Mollie Darling. He far outsells the more artful Burl Ives, a man he greatly admires...
Most of Lorca's poems were composed in the simplest Spanish verse, about basic Spanish emotions - love, pride and the awareness of death-and were meant to be sung to the guitar. For years he disliked to have them printed. Many of them were - and still are - sung by people who never saw them in print and could not read them if they...
...bright names in his cast-he preferred to use singers he could mold in his own way: stressing first expressiveness, then diction, and lastly voice. He had heard the Philadelphia La Scala Soprano Herva Nelli sing last summer, and announced, "This is Desdemona." She told him she had never sung the role. Toscanini snapped: "Good. I'll teach you myself." He drilled the Metropolitan's brilliant new baritone, Giuseppe Valdengo (a graduate of the New York City Opera Co.), for two hours on the proper way to sing just two words-"non so"-at a crucial spot...
Individual competence characterized almost all of the principal roles. As the raisonneur and heavy-duty comedian, Walter Aikman showed confidence and good taste, while his various musical numbers were well-sung. William Whitehead appeared only in the last act, but his duet "Down Among the Dead Men" with Aikman was the high point of the show. Indeed, the ensemble numbers throughout showed more skill and confidence than the solos. Francis MacNutt's general buffoonery as Hodge, the manservant, carried the play through its weakest moments with uproarious success. Dick Murphy and Peter Davison were properly romantic over Marty Hopkins...
Less successful was "On The Plains, Fairy Trains," which suffered from almost non-existent diction, and Schubert's "Valses Nobles," where sloppy entrances spoiled an otherwise well-sung piece. Bach's "Happy Lovers," victim of an uninspired performance in Sanders, again suffered from a lack of spirit until the final bars. The last selection, a medley of 'Cliffe songs, proved the comedy fare of the evening, as several hitherto unsung gems brought down the house...