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...Westerners ever fathomed the appeal of Umm Kulthum, the buxom, handkerchief-waving Egyptian singer who was known to her Middle Eastern fans as "the Nightingale of the Nile." She had a stentorian contralto and a quavering wail that grated on the ears of those attuned to the trills of opera divas. But her voice was a near-perfect instrument for expressing the sinuous quarter tones of Arabic music...
...Kulthum was born into a peasant family at Timay el Zahaira in the Nile Delta, where she developed her unique style by chanting Koranic verses for her father. When he took her to Cairo to sing, she was an instant success. Not only was her voice strong, but she perfected a technique of rephrasing passages-she once sang a single line 52 different ways-that drove audiences to rapture. Her repertoire ranged from love songs to political ballads to adaptations of Moslem poetry, including Omar Khayyam's Rubdiydt...
This was the fourth time in five years that the festival was held on the Nile, but the Egyptian crews had never won a race. The victory over Harvard was definitely a high point for the Police crew, which came into international attention when it competed at Henley...
...home. Cleary, after a pair of games in Watson Rink, took his team to Detroit and the Great Lakes Invitational tourney, then on to St. Louis for a couple of games. And Parker traveled with his crew to Egypt to the International Rowing Regatta on the Nile...
International Rowing Regatta on the Nile...