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[[note]] Tribune [[/note]]
'Songs on Sunday'
Three singers in the current production of Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" shared the second of four fortnightly "Songs on Sunday" recitals in Carl Fischer Hall yesterday afternoon. These were Pauline Phelps, mezzo-soprano; Joy McLean, soprano, and George Hill, bass, in a program which ranged from arias by Mozart and Cesti, through lieder and French works by Monsigny and Debussy, to songs by contemporary composers and spirituals.

Miss Phelps sang with considerable emotional force in outspoken music; elsewhere there was often interpretive sensitiveness and an appealing, while occasionally clouded quality of tone. Expressive vigor and some tonal forcing marked Miss McLean's singing of Lia's air from Debussy's "L'Enfant Prodigue"; in "Nod" and "Pan," songs new here by Philip Pilgrim, a less dramatic atmosphere was evoked to a varying degree.

Mr. Hill's quality of tone was basically likeable, but his range of vocal and expressive color was limited, except for part of Schubert's "An die Leier." Rachel Leon and Lucy Brown were the accompanists.

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[[note]] 1953 A series Howard Roberts dreamed up as we steamed a summer at the Ziegfield Theatre doing "Porgy" [[/note]]

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