Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This war is no convenience to me. For five years I've been shut off from the other world. I've not visited the theater, I've not heard a concert, and I've not seen a film...
...Howard University, he made his operatic debut in Manhattan in an all-Negro version of Cavalleria Rusticana. George Gershwin read the rave reviews, gave Baritone Duncan the lead in Porgy and Bess. He has since sung the part more than 1,200 times. He has also made concert tours, taught singing, had a key spot in Broadway's Cabin in the Sky, floundered through a jive film called Syncopation. (Says Todd Duncan: "Hollywood's not looking for my type. Dis, dat, dese-I can learn to talk that way but not very well...
...discuss the Savoy Cafe (before and after), and we're happy to say that there is an after at the Savoy with Frankie Newton opening there this coming Monday. Incidentally, the above mentioned PeeWee Russell will also soon be back in Boston: Sunday afternoon at the Jazz Society's concert in the Copley Terrace, 30 Huntington Avenue...
...decided to compose some thing of his own for use at a church concert. "It was a Saturday night, and from the various bars I heard sounds of revelry...
...Cross, the Catholics, the U.S. (he sold a half-million dollars' worth of Liberty Bonds). The Church made him a Papal Count; his records and his concerts made him the best-paid concert singer in history (total earnings...