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Article: Calla at embassy a festival of song.(ARTS)(MUSIC)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 11, 2002
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Byline: Patrice Hill, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
If you love lieder, the glory of classic Viennese song, multiply that times four, and that's how much you'll enjoy Calla's Festa della Voce, a vocal chamber ensemble performing this month at the Austrian Embassy.
The Washington-based group of operatic singers actually performs music from all eras, but it was so convincingly Schubertian that the embassy deemed it suitably representative of Vienna and invited it to perform in the embassy's airy auditorium, accompanied by an impressive German-made Bosendorfer grand piano.
In its program Wednesday evening, to be repeated next Friday, the quartet started ...