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In her debut in Manhattan's Town Hall, Armenian-born Mezzo-Soprano Doloukhanova, 39, strode onstage aglitter with diamonds, and swathed in pink silk wrappings. Her program included Russian songs (Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff), Armenian folk songs, Schubert and Strauss lieder, operatic arias from Rossini and Mozart, even one English air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Soviet Singer | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Across the unhappy island, barbed-wire barricades cocoon key buildings, seal Greek and Turkish Cypriots into separate quarters. British Tommies man machine guns on the minarets of Turkish mosques. Cyprus' nightly lullaby is the baying of search dogs. When the sirens signal curfew, the island's economy is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Bitter Breakdown | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

A gypsy woman first sang the song to Folklorist John A. Lomax in Fort Worth, and in no time he made it one of the most famous cowboy songs in the land. Traveling in a model A Ford, with his young son Alan as an occasional companion, he took the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Just Folk | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

¶ Douglas Moore's Gallantry: A Soap Opera, produced at Columbia University's Brander Matthews Theater, is a tuneful romp through the world of the daytime TV serial. The libretto by Arnold Sundgaard picks up "another chapter in Gallantry, the true-time story of hope and folly," at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Of Ghosts & Soap | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

The lullaby is one of a dozen Songs of Couch and Consultation (Commentary Records) beguilingly warbled over her own guitar playing by blonde Nightclub Singer Katie Lee. With lyrics by Bud Freeman, a sometime movie press-agent and independent recordmaker, the disk is an eminently amusing spoof of the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stay as Sick as You Are | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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