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Like the Romantics, he loved the poetic landscape. He describes with glee many cold mornings spent waiting for sunrise in some scenic spot. He tells of the melancholy overtones of classic ruins with a genuine excitement. He did not merely repeat the noble sentiment of the Romantics, he definitely experienced it himself. With his stirring prose, he makes the enjoyment of a grand vista a thrilling event and a worthy ideal...
Harold C. Schmidt, professor of Music at Stanford University, will direct the Chorus. G. Wallace Woodworth, who conducted the Harvard Glee Club for 25 years and the Radcliffe Choral Society for 33 years, will return from Tanglewood as guest conductor for the Handel selections. Woodworth is known for his television series. "Two Centuries of the Symphony...
Tibbett was that rarest of opera stars, a singer born and trained in the U.S., with no European experience. The son of a Bakersfield, Calif, sheriff who was killed in a gun battle with bandits, Tibbett grew up in Los Angeles, sang in the high school glee club, earned small fees singing at funerals. After serving in World War I, he embarked on a professional acting career, but soon found himself singing the musical prologues to silent films at Hollywood's old Grauman Theater. On borrowed money he traveled to New York, auditioned for the Met twice before...
Goldilocks the Victim. But even the present volume has its moments. With great glee, Miller lampoons the shock of the American tourist upon first encountering a Paris pissoir, adding: "I do not find it so strange that America placed a urinal in the center of the Paris exhibit at Chicago. I think it belongs there, and I think it a tribute which the French should appreciate. True, there was no need to fly the Tricolor above it." Oddly enough, the best piece is Miller's account of how, a little squiffed from cognac, he told the story of Goldilocks...
...anonymous gift of $10,000 has already covered a tenth of the estimated expenses for the Glee Club's proposed tour of Southeast Asia during the summer of 1961. The sum was recently contributed to the general fund for the trip and is not restricted in any way, according to Elliot Forbes '40, director of the Glee Club...