Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schorr's greatness as a Wagnerian interpreter sprang not as much from his voice (which was never spectacular) as from his "scholarship. An earnest, methodical man, he made Wagner's roles his business, and learned that business from the ground up. Before he considered himself ready to sing Hans Sachs, he made a trip to Nuremberg, ransacked its old churches and libraries for material on the medieval Meistersinger. Schorr never sang a major role without shutting himself up for hours before the performance, going over every detail with meticulous care. Said he: "I have a great responsibility...
Songs of Free Men (Paul Robeson, baritone; Columbia; 8 sides). An anthology of leftist folk and propaganda songs is sung (in Russian, Spanish and English) as only Robeson can sing them. Included is the stirring Song of the Plains, popularized on previous records by the Red Army Chorus of the U.S.S.R., two rough-hewn numbers from Dzerzhinsky's Soviet opera Quiet Flows the Don, scheduled for its Manhattan première this summer...
...course, the most obvious effect of the war on the Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society will be seen tonight when the two old-timers take a new-comer in their midst to sing at their big concert. Irving Fine '37 will introduce the Navy Communications School Glee Club in their debut before a University audience...
Hard hit by the shortage of manpower and womanpower, the clubs are forced to limit themselves to plays requiring only small stage crews. Productions now being considered are George Bernard Shaw's "In the Good Old Days of King Charles": "Afton Water," by William Saroyan; and "Awake and Sing," a creation of Clifford Odets. Since performance dates have been set tentatively for April 15, 16, and 17, the players will probably arrive at an early decision on their choice. Dark horse among the plays considered is a new drama written by Norman Mailer '43, "Man Chasm...
...carried several hundred Seabees for the U.S. Naval Operating Base in Londonderry. The Navy's new crew of construction and repair men were a few days late for a celebration: the base had just passed its first anniversary. But they were not too late to hear navymen sing the praises-embroidered with profane complaints-of Derry, one of the secrets of U.S. enterprise in World War II, just being made public...