Word: sing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman Glee Clubs under the direction of Proctor A. W. Wright of Smith Halls will give the first of two concerts to be given in the Smith Halls Quadrangle this evening at 8 o'clock. All members of the University and their guests may hear the first-year men sing, their number being about 150, and in view of the success of the University Glee Club's Yard concerts a good attendance is expected. The second concert will be a week from tonight...
...additional half day each week will be devoted to visiting points of sociological interest, including Ellis Island, Blackwell's Island, the Salvation Army Home for Men, Bowery Y. M. C. A., the Jerry McAuley Mission, the New York Stock Exchange, and Sing Sing Prison...
Under the direction of Dr. A. T. Davison '06 the University Glee Club will sing informally on the steps of Widener Library at 7 o'clock tonight. This performance will be the second this year in the club's series of Yard concerts, the last of which will be given next Tuesday evening, May 22, at the same time. The concert last Tuesday was attended by nearly 1500 people, which exceeded by a large number any of the audiences in the Yard to which the club has sung in former years...
...audience refused to leave when the lights were extinguished after a recital by John McCormack, forcing him to sing two encores in semi-darkness." So runs a wireless despatch reporting the Irish tenor's appearance in Berlin. This sort of thing certainly gives the lie to the opinion still in vogue among cynical subway riders that McCormack's reputation results from crowding audiences of servant girls and from other manifestations of Gaelic loyalty. The tenor, far from being a showy player to gushy sentiment, is one of the most refined and scholarly of artists...
...will be one of the greatest of blessings if the Metropolitan gives Don Giovanni next year. This is a masterpiece that one rarely gets a chance to hear. The basso that can sing and play the role of that prodigious Don Juan Tenorio, who was such a favorite among the virgins of Spain, is seldom to be found. The Metropolitan now, however, has a man with a reputation for singing Don Giovanni. He is Michael Bohnen, who made his American debut in the middle of the season. Bohnen is that exceptional phenomenon among singers, a man of high intelligence...