Music for the World
EADERS of this page may recall my diving overboard with cries of joy during the visit last year of Victoria de los Angeles. I was joined by my colleagues above and below me with similar, if less hysterical encomiums, but a couple of corresponhdents, their withers unwfung by the lady, wrote to complain that our enthlsiasm was excessive; that abroad Senofa de los Angeles was metely one of many good sifigers. But last Sunday I heard a recording of the lady at the Edinburgh Festival, and have to feport that her art is as potent there as here. She sang a programme very similar to the sevetal she gave here, in German, French atid Spanish, and it included the two Vocalises, one by Stravinsky and the other, in the form of a Habanera, by Ravel, which she sang here. The presufnably largely Scottish audience expressed themselves with the satne uninhibited delight that Victoria received here, and her wonderful pure lyrical voice, as delicate, refined and eloquent
as. a whole atray of exquisite instruments, bewitched utterly what is probably the most critical audience in the English speaking world. I can only pity
anyone who cannot stfrender to the unique hypnosis of this supréme artist,
B.E.G.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 948, 11 October 1957, Page 25
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209Music for the World New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 948, 11 October 1957, Page 25
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