New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-01134

AMSTERDAM NEWS, When Leontyne Price made make the part fuHy effective, her debut at the Metropolitan As in “Aida", the east seemed Opera in “U Trovatore”, it was to have been inspired by Miss inconceivable that she could ever Price Irene Dalis as Azucena better that performance. But sang the great aria "Strida la last Thursday >he gave one of vampa" with a fervor that was the most gripping portrayals in compelling in its intensity, operatic history. Richard Tucker was Manrico. Hen was a Leonora that show- His singing of the dramatic aria ed her continued search for the! “Di quell a pira” brought down highest dramatic expression in‘the house. music. With perfect control of It took a superb cast to keep her voice, she was able to vary- the subtle elements of this opera the position of the notes, mov- in its proper place and Mario mg from filigree pianissimos to Sereni. Janis Martin, Anton Dia- rieh chest tones all held for kov. Robert Nagy, Hal Roberts long moments by a plenteous and Carlo Tomanelli brought it reserve power.“Her phrasing of to fulfillment. "Tacca la notte piacida”, the The unfaltering lyrical quality ecstasy heard in “E deggio posse of the opera was due to the crederlo”, the tenderness given conductor. Thomas Schippers, “D’Amor sulali rosee’’ served whose sure hand brought about to bring all the vocal color to'a fine orchestral reading. .»** *; ’ Handel's “Messiah” It was with a sense of wonder throughout the performance, that we listened to the Advent The choir sang with a beautiful Portion of Handel’s “Messiah”, Ending of tonal harmony. The " - — r - day afternoon by Adele Addison, standing. The singing of a great soprano; Evelyn Sachs, alto; Jon choral work requires the soloists Crain, tenor. McHenry Boat- to sing with quiet restraint. All wright. bass and a seventy-voice the artists projected a poignancy choir under the direction of Dor- that made the music sublimely beautiful. Donald Dumler was otltf Maynor Rooks. A great dignity was maintained at the organ. night at the Annual Christina* party of the Newspaper Re­ porters Association of New York City held in the Brass Rail Restaurant, 100 Park Avenue. The show will be pro­ duced at The New York World’* Fair in the summer of 1984.-w ROYAL BOX 30/NOW THRU DECEMBER M-MTACHOU Announcing Our „ Grand Opening ** larlem's Showplace W. 116th St. Billiard Academy - Bet. 7ffc 1 Bffc. Am. egg. Fast Office • | COMPLETELY DECORATED •< WITH AU NEW TABUS . i ■n 7 Daw 10 A.M. to 1 A.M. By DAVE HEPBURN “ I Farewell To The Queen The book that Dinah Washington and we were going to write will now never be finished. We had gone past the third chapter, but getting Dinah to , sit or stand still for a couple of hours at a time was always a difficult chore. ■ We are thankful, however, because in the course * 1 Lll of getting her to talk about herself we got to know something about one of the great singing talents of our time and an extremely controversial woman. Judged Her j A lot of people made up their minds jflKRgSEB about Dinah Washington without even wHSjHE having mu her. They judge her purely k^HMjngS by what they heard others say. In fact, KXIIIBI apart from Liz Taylor, we doubt that .1FPRIIllltf anyone has created more controversial talk in show business than Dinah. And since most people have some lurid ideas of showjMople anyway, it was not difficult for them to create the most imaginative and uncomplimentary stories about Dinah. The funny thing is Dinah gloried in those stories. The worse you made them the more she laughed and loved them. In her own imagination it seemed to make her even more of a “Queen” about whom her “subjects” talked incessantly, no matter what they said. There is the story of Dinah’s first appearance in Bermuda. When she arrived on the little British is­ land, she was met by D. A. Browne, the manager of the club where she was to sing, and taken to a place for some refreshment. There she saw the picture of Elizabeth of England, with “Queen” written under it. Without batting an eyelash She requested the man­ ager to take the picture down. She was the only “Queen” around there, she said. She was not kidding, either. That’s only one of the stories they tell about Dinah. But the woman herself was often completely different from the image presented. People have asked why Dinah married so many times. One of the reasons was that despite all that was said, she was a very moral person. She cursed and swore, but she would not consent to any promiscuous cohabitation with a man without matrimony. It may have been an offshoot of the many years she spent in the church as a kid, or the precepts of her mother. She was also a lonely woman and she liked a man around the house. THE SINGING NUNS — Proving their popularity know* oo bounds, the Singing Nun* recording of "Dominique” wa* Number 1 oo the Harlem Hit Parade last week. The 45 sin­ gle is a bit with U. S. teen­ agers and more than 400,000 records were sold within three weeks. The nuns are from the Fichermont monastery in Bel­ gium and are in the Domini­ can order. Sister Luc-Gabrielle is the leader and the one with the guitar. PEARL1E MAE RETURNS - The Inimitable Pearl Bailey start* the New Year off at the Americana Hotel’s Royal Box, opening Monday evening, Dec. 30 and booked for a five- week engagement. It marks her first New York night club appearance in over two years. 24-Hour Music Marathon A 24-hour music marathon? That’* what Ndugu Ngoma Is presenting New Year’s Eve. from 9 p.m. Dec. 31, to 9 p.m. Jan. 1 at 30 Spruce St. Featured will be the Louis Brown Quartet with Larry Willis on piano; the Randy Weston Quintet with Booker Ervin and Big Black; and the Nadi Quamar Ensemble with Eric Dolphy and dancers Rau and Ayinka. Other top Jaza stars ba ve been invited to attend throughout the day. Voices, Inc. Set For TV On New Year’s i Father & Mother She took great care of her father and mother 1 and her sisters and brother. She had a million rela- ' tives who wrote her constantly for help and to whom r she gave It. She was an adoring mother to her sons f even though she tried to spoil them by giving them * everything they wanted. There are long lists of “friends” and hangers on who came to her home and i her business places to eat and drink and borrow ’ money which they’ll never return. Generosity came ‘ to her as a natural course. Sometimes it was a fad. t If there is one over-riding quality about Dinah 1 that has to be remembered, it is her remarkable self- assurance. In show business there are pros who still * walk on stage quaking with fright for the first few ► minutes. Dinah never knew what fear was on stage. * She was a pro and an egocentric star. That’s why she could not have committed suicide. BY JESSE H. WALKER The 80-member interracial Fel­ lowship Chorale was heard in a “Special Christmas Concert”, Christmas Night at Lincoln Cen­ ter's Philharmonic Hall — mark­ ing a high climb for the small chorus which started back ln 1947 and took In anyone who wanted to sing. Now In ks 17th year of exis­ tence. the Interracial Chorale is directed by Harold Aks, an in­ structor of music at Sarah Law- Davis Doing Skit For NAACP Fete The celebrated star of stage, screen and television, Ossie Davis, will be a featured guest at the NAACP Freedom Fellow­ ship dinner to be held at the Hilton Hotel here oil Jan. 5. Mr. Davis will present an or­ iginal skit dramatizing one or more of the many outstanding NAACP activities during the past year. Poitier Film In Theatres Ralph Nelson’s "Lilies of the Field,” prize - winning comedy- drama starring Sidney Poitier. will open la approximately 50 neighborhood theatres in the Met­ ropolitan New Year area during the Christmas - New Year holiday week. ■fits DANCING w< TEACH it Anderson's Sludio Manors College, mous soloists, such as Eumne j Brice, Charles Bressler, raele School. roup that shows Addison, Grace Hoffman and Bet- fet together and ty Allen. ether,” said Mr. “Thousands of our members.” and creeds. And Mr. Aks reveals, “have gone on it became fash- <0 other careers, as performers, as conductors”. The Chorale has growth been heard la benefits for the Morale 1* an out- Urban League and the NAAvit' terraeial Fellow- ha» appeared at the UN, ich organlx- Carnegie Hal, Town Hall, Madi- rv. James Robin- Square Garden and all the alDh Rouse. The major churches and synagogues tiM a body which ln New York City. wanting to ring The Christmas night perfor- »f auditions. The maace at Philharmonic Hall will lorale however. «• first appearance there. College Choirs For January Various member choirs of the United Negro College Fund will participate in a special ’’praise” program on ABC Radio’s ’’Negro College Choir” Sunday. Jan 5. Locally, ABC Radios "Negro College Choir ” will be broadcast at 7-7:25 a.m. Guest choirs the remainder of January will be: Jan. 12 — Huston-Tillotson CoHege, Austin, Tex. Jan. 19—Flak University, Nash­ ville, Tenn. Jan. 38 — Clark College. At­ lanta, Ga. Ace magician Set For Tour Frank Brents, sleight of hand artist currently appearing in Spanish language theatres with the bllUag of "world s Greatest Magician." wiU begin a tour of Puerto Rico and Mexico at Christmas and thereafter LONG STAY - The Jive Bomb- en have recently completed their 20th week at the Light­ house and have a big hit la their latest rocordlng, "Days of Wine and Roses", backed by Club La Chose < HARLEM'S NEWLY DECORATED SHOWPLACE AIR CONDITIONED “Anytime Is the Right Time”. JOSEPHINE THENSTEAD, MGR. Jo Baker Due In Bway Show Josephine Baker will make her official return to the Broadway etage on Thursday, January 9 when ■ she opens her musical show “An Evening With Jose­ phine Baker” on the Main Stem, most likely at the Winter Garden Theatre under the auspices of Trans World Associates in as­ sociation with Felix Gerstman. The show will include a com­ pany of international dancers and a group of drumngers. The mu­ sical will be in sewn languages, have a company of twelve, and an orchestra «' 20 under the direction of Ge.-shon Kingsley. The production will be staged by Jack Jordan, and for this engage­ ment Miss Baker will wear a new wardrobe costing in excess of $250,000. newly designed by Dior. Lanvin and Pierre Balmain. Miss Baker made her first ap­ pearance in New York after an absence of twelve years at Car­ negie Hall this past October to a complete sell out, despite the fact that ticket prices were scaled as high as $50.00 each for this all charity event. The critical reception for Miss Baker was ecstatic. Prices for her engage- mert on Broadway will be at regular theatre box office scale. Trans World Associates, with offices in New York City, is a newly formed producing company organized to produce motion pictures, as well as Broadway shows, television series, and is also In personal management. It is headed by Alan Sherwood, Max King ar.d Jack Jordan. Felix Gerstman is one of the leading concert impresarios in N<4- York City. Teeners Dance No Sneakers A teenage dance sponsored by the officers of the Elliott Chelsea Nautical Cadets will be held Sat­ urday. Dec. 28 from 7:39 p.m. to midnight at the Hudson Guild. 436 W. 27th St. LEAVES FOR BERMUDA — Attractive song stylist Joan Shaw has teamed up with for­ mer heavyweight champion Joe Louis, now turned enter­ tainer, and is filling a one- week holiday engagement in Bermuda's ”40 Thieves’’ nite- club. Miss Shaw recently com­ pleted a three-month appear­ ance at Joe Wells' downstairs where she was featured with the Herman Foster Trio. NEW IN CAST — Marlene Warfield t'xik over the role of Virtue In Jean Genet’s "The Blacks" last Thursday as the dramatic hit reaches its 1100th performance^ at the St. Marks Playhouse. FANTASY EAST 200 01 HOllB AVt LJ. 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