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Arleen Auger in Recital
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11092 |
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THE ARTS
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3 / 1986 |
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Emerson Randolph
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Metropolitan Opera soprano Arleen Auger delivered a pleasingly paced recital at New York City's 92nd Street Yon January 22.
Miss Auger is one of those singers who could sing in any language and make an audience feel included, whether they know the language or not.
This time the language was German. The content was love songs. Miss Auger's program covered a century of Romantic song, beginning with a set by the youthful Franz Schubert and ending with Gustav Mahler at his best in the five pieces she had chosen. Each piece was a jewel in itself; each had a character distinct from the others.
The first set of six selections established a strong tone for the evening. Although Miss Auger, who had yet to find her stride, sang conservatively, she invested each selection with sincerity, as well as with the acute sense of style that was to characterize her work throughout two entire hours of singing.
The conservatism was at least partially deliberate. Noteworthy in the first six of the eleven Schubert selections was the lightness with which Miss Auger (capable of singing to the upper balconies of the outsized Metropolitan Opera House) delivered them in Kaufman Hall to a relatively intimate audience of about seven hundred.
The singer established a considerable rapport with her audience in her first selection, "Frulings-glaube" ("Spring Faith"), with a tender interpretation of the Ludwig Uhland verses. Miss Auger's commitment carried into the next selection as
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