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In the years of 1971 and 1972, Maria Callas conducted twenty-three master classes at Juilliard. They were...
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In 1971 and 1972, Maria Callas conducted twenty-three master classes at Juilliard.
They were recorded by the school, resulting in 46 hours of audio tape with inconsistent
engineering but invaluable content. Subsequently, EMI issued selections from a few
classes on three LP's - reissued on CD. John Ardoin, Callas' friend and later her
biographer, attended some sessions and from the Juilliard tapes and his own experience
wrote Callas at Juilliard: the Master Classes - first published by Knopf, now in a
paperback edition from Amadeus Press. A few classes, recorded from the audience
in poor sound, have found their way into private distibution, but the bulk of the
material has been stored on analogue tape, decaying with time.
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Maria Callas conducted twenty-three, two-hour master classes at Juilliard in
1971 and 1972. About two hours of the Juilliard tapes were issued commercially;
bits and pieces of private recordings may be found elsewhere. Now they are all
available on a single CD-ROM.
EMI attempted to represent the 46 hours of master classes on three LPs or
CDs; I certainly will not try to do it in a single WWW page. Instead, I offer a
sort of longitudinal sample on a most interesting student, Barrie Smith. Ms.
Smith went on to a professional career of modest proportions; I have heard an
attractive Chrysothemis.
In the second class, Callas introduced Smith who
sang some of "Tu che di gel".
In the eleventh class, Barrie hit her stride verbally, if not yet vocally.
By the last session of the last class, preparing the
Forza finale, all was falling into place.
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