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From: Karen Mercedes
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Subject: Re: small point re: Street Scene
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Naomi Gurt Lind wrote:

> >> "What Good Would the Moon Be?" (Street Scene) Weill-- more for lyric sop
> >
> >Explicitly for mezzo-soprano, as per Weill himself. Rose Maurrant is a
> >mezzo. Her sister is the lyric soprano.
>
> I don't believe Rose Maurrant has a sister.

Typo on my part - I meant to type "Mother", i.e., Anna Maurrant - dramatic
soprano. And I have now found conflicting Weill intentions; in one
source, he calls Rose a "lyric soprano" (Anna is a dramatic), in another
he calls her a "mezzo soprano" and calls Anna merely a "soprano".


Both recordings I've heard, however, cast a lyric mezzo as Rose.

KM
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