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The huge spaces of the Kennedy Center are anything but ideal for the intimacy of a song recital, offering smaller-scale works for a single unamplified voice, and DiDonato succumbed at times to the temptation to push her voice a bit, particularly in some of the faster songs the end of the Haydn, or "La Chanson de Zora" in a Rossini set, or Chaminade's "Villanelle".
DiDonato keeps everything in the moment at recital Anne Midgette 2011
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The huge spaces of the Kennedy Center are anything but ideal for the intimacy of a song recital, offering smaller-scale works for a single unamplified voice, and DiDonato succumbed at times to the temptation to push her voice a bit, particularly in some of the faster songs the end of the Haydn, or "La Chanson de Zora" in a Rossini set, or Chaminade's "Villanelle".
DiDonato keeps everything in the moment at recital Anne Midgette 2011
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In case you were wondering, "Villanelle" is a character in Jeanette Winterson's _The Passion_, upon which I'm writing a chapter in my dissertation on Winterson.
Serendipity of Research intertext 2004
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I found it by chance when doing a Google search on Auden's "Villanelle" for my dissertation...
Serendipity of Research intertext 2004
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Cooley's bright voice was most effective in the opening "Villanelle," a paean to spring.
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The delight here was the lustrous and evocative singing of mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, who brought buoyant immediacy to the opening "Villanelle" and an aching intensity to the lament "Sur les lagunes."
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The delight here was the lustrous and evocative singing of mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, who brought buoyant immediacy to the opening "Villanelle" and an aching intensity to the lament "Sur les lagunes."
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Cooley's bright voice was most effective in the opening "Villanelle," a paean to spring.
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It was "Villanelle by Moonlight" published in Weird Tales.
Interview: Lane Robins odysseyworkshop 2010
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It was "Villanelle by Moonlight" published in Weird Tales.
Interview: Lane Robins odysseyworkshop 2010
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