FACE FOUR The Sunday Gleaner, Section A, Aofwt IS, 1976

ark McLaughlin and Joyce BrittonVoice Studio concert

ARK McLAUbaritone, now

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on scholarship at The Man-hattan School of Music, gave the second of two con-certs last Thursday at the Arts Lecture Hall, sup-

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ported i>y pupils and staff 'of the Joyce Brit ton VoiceSjtudio. This was a thoroughly enjoyable concert ofsong, that should have drawn better houses; forMcLaughlin is a promising singer, and life in MewYork today is no easy matter,; even if you have ascholarship. - : , .

programme started on anote with all the per-

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or^formers taking .part in a£s*. comic chant composed to

the instructions of .theWater Commission to savewater. But this was f pi lowedby Banquo's soliloquy justbefore he is murdered from

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Verdi's superlative version ofCome Dal Cjelin which Banquo

darkly apprehensive, hasdescribed as "one of'

Verdi's finest bass arias, anda young singer. F. Andejv

vson. with A "truly rich bassJ£.voice did justice to-it. Ander*-^ son has a natural bass,,and,;.jj"'if this is a good .example of

",.'. his work, we should hear\-much of him in the'future-tieidre Garcia and Ann Cole

sang a delightful .sopr->ano duet, I will take thei£dwk one from Mozan's Cbsi^fan tutti. Tjhere is no com-^poser. who writes better

'songs-for two sopranos t;hanand he strongly

^influenced Richard Strauss; *to follow his example. I was«-. ^

^ lucky to see Strauss conduct» — v- * t

v this opera at Munich, at theof the Berlin Olympic

• Games;' and on that occa-?:'!sion the conductor had ISr' curtain calls. Qeirdre played

lighter of the" two sopr-parts and is definitely

^ • improving through her train-*:. -C/ing. and Ann Cole has a nat-?:;-vuf8Hy rich tone that she uses

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•'* well.U A little harsh

;*MARK MCLAUGHLIN thenr ; /sang four works. Dvoai dan-.:\:--taT Fanccwlh by Durante;^ O del mk> dote, ante by

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Gluck and two pieces' byDebussy, Ni U ol Stan aodMandolin. These Frenchand Italian style songs didnot suit him, especially in

• the • tenor/notes, where hetended to 1>c a little harsh.

. It did not 'strike me thatMcLaughlin is a tenor anymore and certainly not a lyr-ical tenor in the Italianstyle. Indeed, he was farhappier in the second halfof the programme, when hesang works more in the German and Austrian manner.

He hat a fed for the Germanlanguage, and *rts particu-larijr good in the two lieder,Ha«D Wotfi "FbaRefe" andSchumann'* "WandeHied/*wfakh fiist ihowed w a bari-tooe of real potential. Th»had already been hinted atin the Bdihu duet from ThePuritans, which he hadahand with Vibart Seaforth,but m thVbet omto *ylc,the ooofident maturitv of^^^P^P^^^ ^^^^^^^^^P^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^PV ^B^^^^^gf^^f ^^^^^4 ^^^ f ^^f^f

• the h>»* rather over-

*^^^d_^f YAK ^^^A^M^^K ft^^^Kcm*.ui u|iciJi topMrlaugfrKn proved! that dieGamin ttyle mitt him bat.Jor he gave a matt writheand uuviug VCIHUU of Wag-aofc MO Evening Star" from

," m which he^L^^k&Bm • *t* — A^^^K^h^Doui tne tcno>

B4nocca well- •McLaughlin is in process of

turning from tenor into bari-tone, and with more train-

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ing should settle down intoa good sound baritone witha wide*range. He has more-over a pleasing stage person-ality. Peter Austin/ whosang Corelli's Ta Lp Sai, isa youngster with ..possi-bilities. We had,, moreover,some fine singing, fromvibart Seafonh, whonr weusually hear on clarinet, thedouble aptitude enabling

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him to express himself in-both high and low notes. -

Easy melodiesSEAFORTH opened the sec-

ond half of the programme. strongly with the Torn Spiritfrom Simon Boccanegra.4

,That opera was ' too. advanced' for its time, andshowed Verdi breaking away

. from his popular style, fullof easy melodies, .to true dra-matic opera. Simon Bocca-•egra is a, gloomy Work,looking forward to Otheflo., \f . • - . j

And has only recentlyachieved the popularity thatit demands. It is believedthat-Verdi, in fact,, identi-fied himself with Fiesco in

oye isThe hillarious show "LbyE &

MARRIAGE" returns thisweek for two weeks Onlystarting Thursday August 19and playing Wednesdays toSundays at 8.30 p.m. at yetanother, venue. This time it-is 'THE BARN'' w}iich willperhaps be more easily acces-sible forjt&tfse 'theatreenthusiasts who have not yet

: seen this successful show.

.Ol iver Samuels, Grace* McGhie; Jennifer Graham,Barbara McCalla-and Volier

. ' - . / • • ' • - • ; " - . ; • : .\-Johnson, turn in a'range-ofImpressive performances^ innine sketches which look at

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Marley returned to the•island last Sunday follow;

^ ing a hectic North Ameri-Scan and European tourm \ ^

that turned his latest^ ° •

album "Rastaman Vibra-tion" into gold and made

11 into one of the":;^7world'.s: biggest stage^^attractions.

looked tired asjh.e restedhis Hope Road horhe. Si.

His voice war^r^ hoarse and his. face showinfl

A*'* • ' '^of over-work. He*

table tennis- allevening* with a

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female friend. .'. ;*•{f^A&ked about the total sales of

gold album. Bob saidhe had not got the

>returns.yet but he thought itsold a million. Swhat was his reaction torelease of "Roots, Rock

e" as the first singlethe album, he said VA

tune yu know. My tuneway". In his reaction

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the current ban on some^T^

his records by the radio;^stations, Bob said he had

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about : if but he hadno time to check it

BOB MARLEY... he has no plans yet

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people say,:them ban,people sayj than hear

said that he has no plansfor any tour or making a

album > and he couldn'ton business now.

is like I just came toEverything; :4iffer-

. I haven't even been toriver yet'*. , ' /" . ."- .

said that he had not beento make the trip to

Africa, despite, the pressreports that he did. > tiecajne to Jamaica Sundayfrom Miami. - . .

band has already returnedto the island. : . '

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this scene "where the oldman laments the death ofhis daughter; so the secondhalf of the programmes likethe First really opened withone of Verdi's best bass*. *

arias, to which this time• i *

Vibart Seaforth did justice.Joyce Britton then' joined Sea-

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forth in the Boffo duet byRossini, in which the lyric is

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of our reggaes, consisting inthia case of'the single word

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miaow, for both the!-bari-tone and the soprano are

•' imitating! cats flirting, andare also burlesquing be! can-to opera at the same time.This was deliciously funny,and Joyce Britton's varia-tions on this single word hadto be heard and seen - to bebelieved. :\ :; ;,

Kanla Dicbon is developingwell a» a •oprano, hai foodpore note* mad » gaining

technique and con--A* a'lolo the tang

delightfully MichaelHead'nTie Singer"; andperformed the moredemanding "Sail' .Aria"Iran Motait a . Mainage. offFigaro/ where the sang themaid to Ann Cole'i Coonteat

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ano daet of the evening with•icely balanced and. ' * .

The evening ended on some-thing of a weird note, thefamous quartet from Verdi'sRigoletto, and it managedto show the differencebetween ' the "pop" Verdi,once so before by barrel-organs and the tragic verdiof the two bass arias... DavidKeane, who has a good, nat-ural and strong tenor suffer-ed from the comforting delu-sion that Mario Lanza was

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the best of all tenors and' that opera can be

"approached in the samemanner as gospel singing.

A tenor robusto, he went for.broke and almost bust ontwo high notes. The rest ofthe quartet sang' normally,and Joyce Britton in particu-lar showed, how even, the lesssubtle Verdi can still bepica-sing .and artistic.Keaije's other supports were

. . P a t Carey, and, VibartSeafonh. ;

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Both projects are in their veryinitial stages - one plannedby BBC - TV. and the oth-er by the London based St.George's E l i zabe thanTheatre Co. The latter is anew venture headed- by.actor Ceorge Murcell (ex-

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BBC hopes to get into produc-tion by next year, but wheth-er it does — or ever will -may depend on co-financingatrangementii amce coat ofthe venture, • figured ataround US$4,000.000.Though intended for on airexponre,, including inter-national syndication, thecomplete folio obviously iibeing undertaken on theprospect of future «rn»ig«TO ancillary media - tapecassettei, audiovisual disks,etc., also the classroom

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Coincidental sidebar is thatanother independent British

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