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...President J. E. Wallace Sterling points out that the students study only four days a week, freely mingle with townspeople on the other three. Each Stanford student in Germany is "adopted" by a German family, dines in a village home weekly. Students in Austria form a mixed choir with local people. The Florence campus is more isolated, but not enough, as Coed Martha Craig discovered, to keep Italian men from "following you in hordes...
...Antiseptic Vaults. Lewis began his musical career pounding out the piano accompaniment for the choir of Chicago's Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church, moved on to the Chicago Musical College, with aspirations of becoming a concert pianist. But he got married at 18 and quit college to take a job as a clerk in a record shop. Soon he shelved the classics to form a jazz trio with a pair of high school chums-Bassist Eldee Young and Drummer Isaac ("Red") Holt. For the next ten years, the trio roamed the outskirts of success as virtuosos of the expectable...
...Saturday, December 18 THIS PROUD LAND (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). A special celebrating the Great Plains and the Rockies, narrated by Robert Preston, Laraine Day and Mildred Dunnock; music by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Rosebud Sioux Indians, who will sing their new tribal song, Seventy-Six Trombones...
...youngest of seven children, Deller was born in the seaside town of Margate, England. His father taught boxing and fencing at private schools, and under his coaching, young Deller became a crack soccer and cricket player for the Kent County team. He began singing with the church choir at ten, but when his voice failed to change significantly after six years, the choirmaster advised him to quit lest he permanently injure his vocal cords. He had a brief fling with the local opera company but left because the director made him rehearse with the ladies' chorus. He took...
...Oozy Wash. At 28, against almost everyone's advice, Deller gave up his promising career in the furniture business to sing with the Canterbury Cathedral choir. His salary as a choir singer was only $600 a year, and he supplemented his income by working as a farm hand for 90 an hour, pedaling his bicycle twelve miles a day to and from work. Then in 1943, Composer Michael Tippett, in search of a lead voice for a series of Purcell concerts, auditioned Deller. "In that one moment," recalls Tippett, "the centuries rolled back. Deller's voice is like...