Word: messa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them. The cast did its best with a baffling array of polyglot lines ("Good morning, caro Signor Jack O'Brien!"), but when it came to singing "Worst of all, Benares is said to have been perished by an earthquake," the chorus sensibly defected. "Guarda qua Benares, è state messa giù da un terremoto," sang the mutineers, leaving American Mezzo Gloria Lane to go it alone in English...
...immortalized Home, Sweet Home. Her voice spanned nearly three octaves, top ping out at G above high C. Her high F-sharp was pure enough to split a ray of light, and she had an incredible ability to sing very softly at that altitude. No one could match her messa di voce-the technique of holding a single note while in creasing and diminishing its volume. She did it as if she were twirling a knob on a hi-fi amplifier. Some of this was wasted on numbers like Old Black Joe, but she al ways sang parts from...