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Amanda Crider sings “with a plush tone” with the New World Symphony
Mezzo-soprano Amanda Crider performed Ravel’s “Songs of Madagascar” Sunday with members of the New World Symphony.
“The mezzo-soprano Amanda Crider, who has sung locally with Seraphic Fire and Florida Grand Opera, was the soloist in Ravel’s Songs of Madagascar, three settings of French poems about the island from the 18th century accompanied by flute, cello and piano. Crider sings with a plush tone and dead-on intonation. In the erotic song Nahandove, she didn’t push the sensuality too far, singing in an almost chaste manner that let the words, music and the tonal beauty of her own voice carry the work. The second song, a call for revolution at white colonial rule, opened with the cries “Aoua! Aoua!” that came off with an almost brutal power, as she hit the words hard in a shocking and effective contrast to the preceding eroticism.”
- South Florida Classical Review