Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when one ship won $1,992, leaving $8 as total capital among the other three. Craps redistributed the wealth, but not for long. A few days before the convoy finally sailed, the game became the property of two shipmates. One, a Yale alumnus, owned the dice. The other, a Sing Sing alumnus, had all the money...
When he went to Manhattan in 1892, he had as assets a rich baritone and a modest training in the rudiments of music. He got a scholarship at the National Conservatory of Music, where he studied under the late great Antonin Dvorak. Burleigh's singing of spirituals was Dvorak's chief spur toward the New World Symphony. Burleigh won his St. George's post against 59 other applicants, all white. The deciding vote was cast by the church's senior warden, J. P. Morgan the elder. Morgan later arranged to have Burleigh sing before Edward...
...Palms. Burleigh learned to sing in Hebrew, Latin, Italian, French and German. For 25 years he sang not only in St. George's but also in the choir of Manhattan's best known synagogue, Temple Emanu-El. But his first loyalty has always been to St. George's, and he is a devout Episcopalian. This Lent he hopes to give his 50th rendition of Fauré's The Palms...
...help the Cambridge Women's War Finance Committee and the Cambridge Teachers' Club in adding to the War Bond drive, the Harvard Glee Club will sing at a rally at Rindge Technical School on Saturday, February...
...group will then sing the final chorus from "Il Matrimonio Segreto," by Cimarosa, two Italian folk songs, two catches by Purcell, and "The March of the Peers," from Iolanthe," by Sullivan. After singing "Tarantella," written for the Yale Glee Club of 1937 by Randall Thompson and "Casey Jones," arranged for the Harvard Glee Club of 1939 by Edward B. Lawton '34, the Glee Club will conclude by singing "Father William," from Alice in Wonderland," written for last year's Harvard Glee Club by Irving G. Fine '37, who is now assistant conductor of the Glee Club...