Evening star., 1960-10-16
GieIeud Adds Part II
Of ShokespeoreRo Roles
TURNTABLE TALK
BY HERMAN SCHADEN
star Record Critic

BY HERMAN SCHADEN
star Record Critic
So far as Is known. Sir
John Gielgud never sang a
note outside his shower, If
there. Yet he is doing as
much as anyone to perpetuate
the notion that the voice is
the noblest. Of all instru-
ments.
Those who own and cher
ish his cages Of Man" will be
happy to learn Columbia has
brought out Part Two of these
marvellous tidbits from his
one-man Shakespearean show
that enthralled Broadway
and European audiences alike.
Part Two is called "One
Man in His Time" but a rose
by any other name would
be as welcome for a chance
again to accompany this
superior British actor
through some of the greatest
roles and tangiest lines ever
written.
It is truly a symphony Of
words as Sir John moves from
scene to scene, here lovingly
caressing the lines of a SON.
net, there as TroiluS, bitterly
renouncing Cressida.
With the lightness Of a
dance movement ne is Obcron
commanding Puck in mid
summer Nights Dream;
there's satire in his bit from
Loves Labour Lost" a de-
lightful "scherzo" from
Tanning of the Shrew."
King Henry v furnishes a
fanfare of trumpets; Richard
II a lamentation of Self-pity;
and the big climactic scenes
from Julius Caesar" find An
tony running an arpeggio of
grief, anger and retribution.
For a chilling finale come
dark and sinister tones from
Macbeth" In recapitulation,
here are 40 rewarding min
utes of ever-building drama.
QUICK SWITCH
1t really was only a short
chariot ride for Charlton
(Ben Hur) Heston to step
into the role of Bible reader
in a 2-record Vanguard set,
"The Five Books of Moses"
Here, too, is a man with a
voice-what an awSome one
when he reads the words of
God in a sonorous bass. He
and the spiritual singing
Robert DeCormier Chorale
make the Creation and what
follows a thrilling experience.
BALLET, BALLADS AND
BANDS
A surprise>on the ballet list
is "Sahdji," by William Grant
Still, a foremost American
Negro composer. The throb-
bing African tribal story is
played and sung to the nilt
by Howard Hanson and the
Eastman-RocheSter Orches-
ira and Chorus on a Mercury
record that also includes
numbers by South Americans
GinaStera and Guarnieri.
Mr.. Hanson also does his
usually spirited job for Nor
ton Gould's Fall River Legend
ballet suite depicting Lizzie
Borden's alleged assassination
of her parents, and of Gould's
jazzy spirituals on another
Mercury disc.
Epic's recent recording of
Russia's Moiseyev troupe ap-
parently called for equal time
by The Hungarian National
Ballet Company. Bad joke,
but not the record which is
bouncy with the songs and
dances OF Hungary's relent-
less will for freedom.
Another high spirited
country is heard from in
Vanguard's recording of the
Harmon Israeli in Songs Of
the SabraS Two records
of Jewish folk songs also are
attractive. Leon Lishner, a
fine bass, sings in Yiddish
"Out Of the Ghetto" songs
of the Jews in America for
Vanguard. Cantor Josef
Rosenblatt. the noted syna-
gogue singer who also ap-
peared in vaudeville is heard
on a Camden record in
Songs Of My People"
Four others from VAN
guard: "Tumbalalaika!" Yid-
dish folk songs without music
and "A la Russo" same for
the Russians, both expertly
played by the Decameron
Orchestra; also the supple
voiced, pure-toned Odetta
singing Ballad for Americans
with the Symphony of the
Air and Robert DeCormier
Chorale, plus ballads with
guitar; also Volume Two of