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Word: aria (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave up just before the end of Brünnhilde's ho-yo-to-ho aria when her accompanist, Edwin McArthur, fumbled. He explained that he hadn't played it for six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Flagstad Case | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...song: Time After Time), but performs naturally and unaffectedly. Durante, as a high-school janitor, hasn't much to do beyond proving, without any strain, that he is one of the most likable entertainers in the business. Miss Grayson, prettier and more animated than ever, warbles an aria from Lakmé like an eisteddfod of thrushes, and does even better by Mozart's Lá Ci Darem la Mano, in which she is supported by Sinatra. For good measure young Billy Roy plays the piano impressively, and Peter Lawford hangs around amiably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...from Maestro Karl Krueger, her conductor and friend, Margaret began. She tackled the reasonably simple Cielito Lindo with power and control, sang the tricky aria, Charmant Oiseau, with swooping zest (and a few flat notes), and coasted home with the well-worn Last Rose of Summer, a song her father had requested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Moment for Margaret | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...higher, with Mildred Mueller contributing an excellent voice to the musically important role of Cherubino and Nancy Trickey and Margaret Goldovsky, who alternated in the part of Susanna, doing very criditable jobs. As the countess, Phyllis Curtin gave an in- and- out performance, muffing badly on the most important aria of the opera, Dove Sono...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...Goths and 22 Norwegians on [an] exploration journey from Vinland round about the West. . . . .We were [out] and fished one day. After we came home [we] found 10 [of our] men red with blood and dead AV[E] M[ARIA] Save [us] from evil . . . year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Holand's Crusade | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

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