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...with the San Carlo and Chicago Opera companies. In 1943 she sang a New York recital of American songs by Virgil Thomson, Paul Bowles, John Cage and others. Says Janet Fairbank: "People thought it was going to be a nut stunt. When I started, the American songs that were sung were mostly the 'I Love Life' type. I think I made people realize that there were good American songs. I always try to stay away from hackneyed things. Unless you are a Lotte Lehmann you can't do the old war horses. If I hear a song...
...copies of some Cetra (Italian) releases and is daily expecting a shipment of HMV discs; McKenna's has already received 1000 HMV records, including such choice items as the Schnabel Beethoven Sonata Society sets, the Fischer recordings of the Bach 48 Preludes and Fugues, and songs from the Wintereisse sung by Gerhard Husch; and both of the stores have the Polydor version of the Missa Solemnjs, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic and chorus...
...Mozart fans who expected another Don Giovanni or Marriage of Figaro, it was a disappointment. The Abduction from the Seraglio is a trifle in which half of the dialogue is spoken, not sung. Its story (supplied by Librettist Gottlieb Stephanie, who borrowed it from a comedy by Dramatist Christoph Bretzner, who probably borrowed it from an English comic opera called The Captive) tells of an English cavalier and his manservant who try to liberate the cavalier's lady love and her maid from a Turkish pasha's harem...
...lithographs and neckties-were on sale last week in limited editions. A new company called Concert Hall Society, Inc. announced that it would turn out only 2,000 copies of its albums. For $105, Concert Hall promised twelve albums of previously unrecorded music by Henry Purcell, Beethoven (Scottish Songs, sung by Balladeer Richard Dyer-Bennet), Brahms, Stravinsky, Béla Bartók and others...
Bernstein: Fancy Free (Ballet Theatre Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein conducting, with Billie Holiday; Decca, 8 sides). The jaunty, jazzy ballet score with inappropriate lyrics sung-by blue-voiced Billie Holiday. Performance: fair...