Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Granville Bantock, bearded, British, 73-year-old composer, laid hands on a sacred* song: the Internationale. Sir Granville thought the Internationale needed "more movement," made a few slight changes. To make the song more suitable "for English choirs and for people to sing," Sir Granville's elderly, deaf wife, Lady Helen, wrote new words. Instead of Arise, ye starvelings from your slumbers; Arise, ye criminals of want (Russia's official English translation), Lady Helen's verses began Awake, O sleepers from your dreaming; Uplift, uplift your longing eyes...
Artistry bowed before racial prejudice again this week, right here in Boston, too, in a manner reminiscent of the Affaire Marian Anderson of two years ago. Those of you who heard Frankic Newton's broadcast last Sunday remember the sensitive guitar strummings and down to earth blues singing by Joshua White. Josh White accompanied Libby Hofman, who learned to sing the blues from him, over at the Balinese Room of the Somerset this past week. He has produced three fine albums, devoted especially to his songs, but a musician of his accomplishments is just another Negro to the innkeepers...
...conception of what is real democracy. In his language, anyone who is progressive, anyone who wants to see our democracy grow and strengthen is a dangerous communist. In short, he has done the same kind of harm to this nation that French fascists did to theirs. They all sing democratic tunes, but to Nazi lyrics...
...Hempel saw nothing extraordinary in her behavior, or Brownie's. Next to German Lieder, she loves animals best. She once hired a special plane to whisk her Pomeranian from Paris to a London vet, once carried a sick Great Dane home to her apartment, refused to sing in an Ohio town until authorities ministered to an unhappy mule lying in the street. One of her adopted strays won a Manhattan pet show prize-for dogs "combining the most breeds." She buys 25 Ib. of bird seed a week, which she spreads on her window sills-to the delight...
They number 19 young, talented sing ers, who expertly shake 19 operas-in-English out of their sleeves. Newest Phila delphia stunt is to have a tenor sing the incredible quasi-male operatic roles usu ally warbled by women in tights-Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Siebel in Faust, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Prince Orlofsky in The Bat, Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann...