LEONARD WARREN BIOGRAPHY REVIVES THRILL OF A VOICE

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LEONARD WARREN BIOGRAPHY REVIVES THRILL OF A VOICE

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August 18, 2000 | Richard Dyer, Globe Staff | Copyright

Sometimes musical performance can be described so vividly that you feel you were there, even if you weren't. My father and grandfather liked to recall a recital in Oklahoma by the baritone Leonard Warren sometime in the 1940s. Warren began, they said, with Handel's "Largo," "Ombra mai fu." "You couldn't tell when he had started to sing," they said. "The sound wasn't there, and then it was, steadily growing and then diminishing." Barrett Crawford's disc og ra phy of Warren, published in Mary Jane Phillips-Matz's splendid new biography (Amadeus Press) stretches to more than 100 pages, but it doesn't mention "Ombra mai fu." [CORRECTION - DATE: September 1, 2000: Let's get this …

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