Word: dictions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sanctus for high and a Supplicationes for low voices were, perhaps, the best of the sacred offerings. The Radcliffe group has mellowed in the past year, although an absence of really first-rate soprano voices is still evident in the lovely Sanctus. Singing the Supplicationes with fine balance and diction, the low voices sacrificed some precision as Professor Woodworth wisely kept to the earnest simplicity of this work...
Folk Songs and Ballads (Susan Reed, with zither and Irish harp; Victor, 6 sides). Twenty-year-old Susie's voice is sweet, her diction pure and her zither a little flat. A big attraction in Greenwich Village, her ways may be too sophisticated and stylized for plain folks. Performance: good...
...Ingrid Bergman went an honor that was unlikely to provoke public controversy: the International Sound Research Institute gave her its annual award for good diction...
...production, but it surely did not add to the necessarily exact timing between the orchestra, solo voices, and chorus. And despite the obvious virtues of understanding gained by using English words, no one interested in music will ever be reconciled to hearing the quick rhymes and smooth-flowing Italian diction of librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte exchanged for the ponderous, ungainly English of even so able translator as Edward Dent...
When the going is easy, he is the spieling image of his father. When the going is tough, he is only the eldest son-but even then Jimmy Roosevelt is an able speaker with a pleasant voice and good diction. Last week, on the grounds that he had inherited enough of his father's magic to hold down a regular news commentator assignment, two small California stations signed him for a five-a-week schedule. (Both stations, Los Angeles' KLAC and San Francisco's KYA, are owned by the New Dealing, New York Post-publishing Thackreys...