Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need to progress. At my age, I know it's easy to abuse or ruin a voice. I've got to have discipline. I want to know exactly how I do every single thing with my voice. And I want to get the training that will let me perform works in the classical repertory along with popular music and folk songs. I'd like to take some lessons in French and German and Italian, as well as learn something about different styles. All this is why I'm anxious to get back to New York and resume my regular singing...
...desultory afternoon last week, New York's Democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler, 76, rose in the sparsely populated House chamber to perform a labor of love. Celler's task: to speak on his bill outlawing gerrymandering of congressional districts. It was a subject close to Manny Celler's old Brooklyn heart...
...Jazz Dance Workshop interpretation--the first in America--centers around three clowns (two Harlequins and Columbine) making fun of a religious procession and of each other. Interspersed, in the scenes, is a brief but touching affair between the Cantatrice--a prop girl who pretends to perform when no one is looking--and the Censor from the religious procession...
...stage, a large group of animals perform for the King and Queen of the forest. So much goes on that it would be impossible to summarize it, except to say that most of the audience is laughing most of the time. Richard Kimmel and Eric Lessinger are hilarious foxes, exceeded in humor only by a monster which later divides into three very lovely butterflies...
...soon as we enable all of our citizens to perform skills needed in our mechanized economy, unemployment will shrink and the national intellect will grow. "Machines provide jobs for men if there are men capable of filling them." The great theme of the next few decades, and of The New Improved American, is education. The route to Paradise passes through the schools...