This song is indeed marked with a dotted quarter note as 72. The recording with Barber and Leontyne Price is about that tempo and I have never heard it much slower than that.
As always when singing something with alot of moving notes, in order to keep it from sounding panicky you will want to keep a super-legato line -- and think calm thoughts!
Candace A. Magner, DMA University of New Mexico - Los Alamos Dept of Fine Arts/Music candacemagner@a... candacemagner@a... homepage http://clik.to/candace
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