Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1946 — Page 12

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By ‘HENRY BUTLER : _ Fabien Sevitzky did himself proud both as conductor and as impresario of talent in yesterday's pop concert at the Murat, He had as good and as personable a quartet of young soloists as you're likely to hear and see, plus Elmer A. Steffen’s Indianapolis Symphonic choir for ensemble singing in the operatic numbers, I might as well break down and confess that the idea of an operatic pop concert seemed in advance) something of a clambake. They Easter . music, yesterday seemed would roast old chestnuts, 1 thought, | splendidiy new and significant. The surprise was an early Christ-| Joseph Laderoute, tenor, and Agmas present from. Dr. Sevitzky to nes Davis, soprano, sang with. zest, his audience. - Everything sounded beauty of tone and youthful enthu-

wonderful. |siasm, with Mr, Steffen’s chorus, First of .all, the orchestra was sounding better than ever this year, moved forward on to the temporary giving background volume. apron, so that you got strings and, The “Carmen” excerpts were exwoodwinds “with a clarity the pros-|eiting, both orchestrally and vocally. cenium seems to swallow. Paren-|1f you think the local team can't thetical suggestion to the planners | play, you should have heard the orof that talked of, when-as-and-if |chestra fn the prelude. And you municipal auditorioum: Let's have| should have heard Rosalind Nadell, no acoustical mistakes. | contraite, in the “Habanera” and Music Revitalized the “Seguidilla.” If the Indianapolis Symphony or- Another Swarthout

MONDAY, DEC. 2, 1946

. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Musical Star

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chestra could always sound as swell] Managerial gossip says she is relas it did yesterday, people would | garded as another Gladys SwarthSe- out. I think she has the advantage over Miss Swarthout of being | able to sing without guttural-choky | mannerisms. This business of trying to be Spanish in French, like | Puccini's brain-tester of trying to

| realize the magnitude of Dr. vitzky's achievement. The test of a good conductor is {playing music so familiar that even {tone-deaf people hum it. We arrived a little late, in the middle of the “Mignon” overture, and heard |

the famous “Je suis Titania” polo- | | be Japanese in Italian (“Bulter|naise part of it (Does anybody but fv) makes demands on singers lmy colleague Anton Scherrer re- nics’ Nadell did beautifully with) member Tetrazzini's record Of {he gecent in the “Je n'ai jamais {that?) connu” kind of lingo that abounds Amazing ‘how a good orchestral; «carmen.” |performancé can revitalize ‘music| gpecial plug for Earl V. Schuster

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