Word: musician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...antiquities that for centuries nobody paid much attention to a charming fresco in the administration building. Painted about 1550 by the Zucchi brothers, minor artists of the Raphael school, it shows a group of wet nurses feeding foundling children, while in one corner of the scene a plump, placid musician plays a ciaramella or shawm, a cousin of the oboe. This week the hospital's archivist, Professor Pietro de Angelis, was getting ready to publish a startling explanation of the musician's presence: he was there to stimulate the flow of milk...
...success to their second panel show, It's News to Me.* Last week they launched the third in their series, The Name's the Same (Wed. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Like most of the others, it has a panel of experts: Comic Abe Burrows, Actress Joan Alexander, Musician Meredith Willson. It also has a funnyman moderator (Robert Q. Lewis), and a succession of contestants, in this case individuals whose names are the same as those of living & dead celebrities (among last week's mystery contestants: Jane Russell, a Long Island saleswoman). Each panelist is allowed ten questions...
...attention. The credit line on its record label read simply "Sigman-Dawes." Lyricist Carl Sigman's sentimental lines were the standard drippy stuff, but the lilting waltz tune had an unusually fresh, clean sound. Its composer: the late Charles G. ("Hell 'n Maria") Dawes, Chicago banker, amateur musician, and Vice President of the U.S. in the Coolidge Administration...
Charlie Dawes never studied composition ("My parents were afraid I might become a musician"), but he managed to work up one piece for violin called Melody in A Major, which Fritz Kreisler started playing, made into a concert hit in the early 1900s. In the '40s, Dawes' Melody, as the trade called it, was picked up and recorded, swing-style, by Tommy Dorsey and a few other bandleaders. But like most pop recordings, it soon lost its hold, and finally disappeared from the record catalogues...
...belief she will, I would think about reviving operas that have good roles for her." And Europe still presents a challenge. Four years ago she went on a concert tour of Scandinavia, but she has yet to sing opera abroad. Europe will not think her a beauty. One European musician describes her thus: "Fairly tall, slender, and has a pleasant horse face, like a clean-cut American college girl." And Europe has heard better voices. But everyone likes life-and Patrice Munsel has a lot of that. Among other things, she would like to try her Fledermaus Adele-in German...