Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daughters of the American Revolution, who once outraged music lovers and democrats by refusing to let dusky Contralto Marian Anderson sing in their Constitution Hall, had a wartime change of heart last week. When her stubborn Manager Sol Hurok again asked for use of the Washington hall, the DARters went him one better, formally invited Miss Anderson to be soloist on one of their war-relief concerts this winter...
...didn't you tell me you could sing?" demanded Director Ratoff in his unreproduceable dialect...
...after her father's death, she became pianist in an all-female band. Three years later she stopped a Broadway show, Sing Out the News, with her sultry rendition of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones. But her break came with a chance to fill in for ailing Blues Singer Ida Cox at Barney Josephson's downtown Café Society, a Manhattan Mecca for jazz connoisseurs. Result: Hazel Scott has been entertaining Café Society audiences ever since. Two years ago Showman Josephson opened a Cafe Society Uptown to house her art with greater swank, now finds it packed nightly...
Officers of the Harvard Glee Club, famed all over the country, have issued a call for members of the Class of 1946, who enjoy good music to come out and sing. Because of the accelerated program and graduation, the Club has lost many of its veterans, and will rely on the entering class to fill its thinning ranks...
...doesn't take a Caruso to be a member of the club. If you like to sing, even if you are uncertain as to whether you should be among the bases or the tenors, or both, the officers of the Glee Club urge you to come to the Entrance Trials on October 1 and 2 in Sever 11. The first rehearsal will be on Monday, October...