Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Manhattan's Commodore Music Shop-which not only makes and sells records but provides loafing room for most of the city's hot musicians-gave Billie and others a chance to hear her sing Strange Fruit, and also provided the National Association for the Advancement of...
City Councilman Michael A. Sullivan has asked Cambridge Chief of Police Timothy Leahy to investigate and, if necessary, prosecute the backers of the musical play "The Cradle Will Rock," which was produced by the Student Union on Saturday, May 27, in Sanders Theatre, he announced last night.
"The critics both in New York and Boston have praised it as 'interesting', 'important', 'vital', and 'original', particularly as a musical score. The Harvard performance was sponsored by a Faculty Committee who have a reasonable amount of critical competence.
In Manhattan last week the American Lyric Theatre entered the second week of its debutante season. First week, it had launched the folksy opera, The Devil and Daniel Webster, by Douglas Moore and Stephen Vincent Benet. This it followed with an operetta based upon Stephen Foster tunes, Susanna Don'...
Director Victor Schertzinger has long held that the cinema is a better medium for opera than the stage. Composer of the music for The Love Parade (1929), Schertzinger started his campaign to bring opera to the screen when he had Grace Moore trill in One Night of Love, thus setting...