Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maintenance of our liberties. The next item was a patriotic song. The singer rose to the microphones, peering uncertainly at the band members who were shuffling their sheets of music frantically. Rather raggedly the notes poured forth, the singer usually a measure or two behind the band. Nobody could hear him anyway...
...faced Redcoat. In the midst of the resulting confusion, the placard-bearers' chieftan, Roy Gootenberg, was protesting vigorously the police's attempt to remove his signs. "Freedom of speech...freedom of opinion...freedom of speech..."plus a long list of Supreme Court cases was all that this reporter could hear above the din of William Dawes' revisitation. The placard wavers rushed out into Garden Street still citing court decisions, raised their signs once more, and another argument ensued...
...years ago it was a different story. La Scala heard her then and yawned. Maria Callas thinks she knows why: "I have a funny kind of voice, and often people don't like it the first time they hear it. One has to hear me more and more." After singing in the Italian operatic "sticks"-Parma, Florence, Rome-she finally got a chance at La Scala when leading Soprano Renata Tebaldi fell sick...
Puccini: La Bohème (Licia Albanese, soprano; Jan Peerce, tenor; the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 4 sides LP). This recording of the Maestro's 1946 broadcast will make opera fans regretfully aware of how seldom they hear a first-rate performance of Bohème. Toscanini, who conducted the world premiere in 1896, gives it a rare force, clarity and subtlety. The singers are all in fine voice-including amateur Baritone Toscanini, whose hoarse old bawling can be clearly heard accompanying the principals in several passages. Recording: excellent. A new recording of Tosco, (Cetra-Soria...
...anyone wanted to do so) and it would be most unnatural for Christian fraternities to accept Jewish brothers or vice-vera. The house that had been left in a precarious position couldn't be allowed to die--"It's a plain matter of dollars and cents" we can hear one of the group telling the dean. The solution, therefore, was simple: the university would have to limit the number of Jewish students admitted each year...