Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall Ones and Trades. In private guise, Sam Breadon was a hospitable fellow, a genial server of long tall drinks. He liked to sing in barbershop quartets. He was a good guy, most baseball writers agreed; but he "would trade his grandmother if the price was right." In his way, he had a certain amount of sentiment for his ball club. Last year, when he flew down to Mexico, rumors spread that he was selling the Cardinals to Mexico's Pasquel Brothers. Sam denied it. Said he, grinning: "The Cards are not for sale . . . that is, [unless] some...
...sometimes worse. In staging and pace, the Met still hadn't picked up any tips from its Broadway neighbors. The scenery was shabby: that was familiar. The singers couldn't act: that was nothing new. But worst of all, some of the singers couldn't even sing...
...little opera company that was stranded, bankrupt, in Chicago last winter (TIME, Feb. 10). She had offered herself to the Met, passed muster at an audition and was launched without fanfare. She was somewhat dumpy of figure, but the audience soon forgave that: she could act and she could sing, with fire and with control. Of nine debuts so far, hers was the only unqualified success...
Season-ticket subscribers, who buy their season's supply of opera without knowing what they are getting, were beginning to wonder. The Met had stars who could both sing and act-Melchior, Tagliavini, Traubel, Albanese, Pons, Pinza. Four out of the six had yet to be heard this season. Some stars whom season subscribers paid to see now put in only two or three "prestige" performances a year to keep their names bright for the movies and the cigarette ads, the guest appearances on Sinatra programs, and the fat recording contracts...
Five days before Christmas, using the Coopersmith version, the 200 voices of the New York Oratorio Society will sing the first correct and uncut Messiah ever heard in the U.S. The differences between it and the versions previously heard would probably not be apparent to ordinary ears, but they meant a lot to meticulous musicologists. Coopersmith had found at least 50 mistakes in all standard editions of the Messiah...