Word: sing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first time in a thousand years, great masses of people in China are singing together. The lusty, patriotic songs they sing sound much like those of the Western world. Dr. Sun Yatsen, who founded the Chinese Republic in 1912, stirred up many enthusiasms but not mass music. China did not get a national anthem until 1924, and that one never caught on. But the Chinese did pick up a Western round-Frère Jacques-to which they sang such sentiments as Down with the militarists, Down with the war lords, Down with oppression...
...largely coaxed the Chinese into mass song is now in the U.S. A small, lean-faced Y.M.C.A. man named Liu Liang-mo, he is studying at the University of Pennsylvania and Crozer Theological Seminary. At the University of Shanghai, cheerleading at basketball games convinced him that mass singing was a morale build er. In 1935 Mr. Liu, by then a Y.M.C.A. secretary, formed a chorus of 60 poor Chinese, taught them to sing Save, Save, Save China to the tune of another round, Row, Row, Row Your Boat. The Y.M.C.A. sent Mr. Liu throughout China, and finally the Government adopted...
Today China sings not only for pleasure but for many purposes-to combat illiteracy, to improve sanitation. Soldiers are taught to sing drill terms, Army regulations, and, once taught, they learn to read the words. Other popular songs : You must help the soldiers, Flies spread bacteria...
Greatly gratified was Columnist Westbrook Pegler, whose furious finger-pointing had resulted in Bioff's jailing on the old pandering charge, and whose attacks had blown open another A.F. of L. union, the Building Service Employes. Ex-president of that union, George Scalise, is in Sing Sing for stealing members' dues, still has a sentence for income-tax evasion hanging heavy over his head. James J. Bambrick, ex-head of the New York local, was also convicted of filching union dues. Same day that indictments in the Browne-Bioff case were returned, a sick and saddened Bambrick received...
Paul Lemay, conductor of the Duluth Symphony, heard a choir sing Sister Martina's The Highwayman, advised her to orchestrate it and enter it in the annual Minnesota composers' competition of the State Federation of Music Clubs. Sister Martina did, won handily. Last week Conductor Lemay, the Symphony and a 250-voice chorus gave The Highwayman its first full performance...