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When the editors had the Little Red Cannon back in their hands this weekend, the staff odist penned some delirious lines to be sung to the tune of 'Casey at the Bat." They follow...
What a standing-room-only audience saw one night last week was a fast-moving, well-sung, dramatic (if occasionally overplayed) Don Giovanni in two acts. With a stylized set, which was made to do for both indoor & outdoor scenes, Halasz simplified Don Giovanni's nine cumbersome scenes without sacrificing any of the music. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Critic Virgil Thomson: "The most distinguished piece of work all through that our city troupe has yet produced...
Humperdinck: Hansel & Gretel (Metropolitan Opera Association Orchestra and Chorus, Max Rudolf conducting; Columbia, 24 sides). First and happy result of Columbia's agreement with the Metropolitan to record two full operas a year at the Met. Sung in English, soloists include Risë Stevens, Nadine Conner, Thelma Votipka, John Brownlee, Claramae Turner. Performance: good...
...Morris* almost as long. "I had already decided that she had the finest dramatic soprano voice in the entire country. She is a young Jeritza. Everybody told me I was taking my life in my hands to produce an opera with two singers who had never in their life sung in opera, but I wasn't worried...
Bach: Sacred Arias (Carol Brice, contralto, with the Columbia Broadcasting Concert Orchestra, Daniel Saidenberg conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). The Agnus Dei and Qui Sedes from the B Minor Mass, and two arias from the Magnificat, warmly sung by a Negro of considerable talent, who is not yet a Marian Anderson. Recording: good...