Word: phonographed
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...annual performance of Faust, in translation if necessary; at least the First Part, and the Second also in time to come. Both are done in Germany. Yale gave a magnificent performance of Part One in 1949, the bicentenary of Goethe's birth. They made one bad mistake; used a phonograph recording of Holst's The Planets, when they had to hand the rich fare of Faust music, Wagner's Overture, Liszt's Symphony, Berlioz's dramatic oratorio, and Boito's opera Meflstofele...
...Auntie sits in the parlor listening to French art songs on the phonograph. They sound, she says, "a little like...
...voice in Big Auntie's phonograph belongs to one of the world's great singers: her niece, Leontyne Price. When Laurel-born Soprano Price. 34, made her Metropolitan debut last month, she faced, in the audience, a score of Laurel friends and relatives from both Fifth Avenues and from the sleepy streets in between. Her triumph monopolized the front page of the Laurel Leader-Call ("She reaches the pinnacle") and for a time, even crowded out the achievements of that other local Negro hero, Olympic Broad Jumper Ralph Boston. Laurel knew about Leontyne before Rudolf Bing ever heard...
What gives a voice goosepimple potential? What makes a singer great? Obviously talent and training. Amply talented. Leontyne Price has never stinted the training, still works hard with her teacher, Florence Page Kimball, even takes phonograph records along on her tours to study other singers' versions of a role during the long hours in hotel rooms. Like many other singers, she did not really reach her peak until she passed 30, has developed remarkably in style and power during the last three or four years. Says Teacher Kimball: "It is not lessons that have done...
...Guard, the struggles of the American Revolutionists, the life of John Brown, the plight of migrant workers. When the idea is too broad for a single painting, Lawrence turns out a series. Otherwise he sticks to the things he sees around him - lovers on a couch before a blaring phonograph, a bone-weary prompter in a cheap vaudeville theater, the teeming streets of Harlem on a steaming summer night...