Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they sing Rule, Britannia in Moscow? Not quite. But they are no longer being really beastly to the British. Russia's serpentine propaganda currently presents the U.S. as the total villain, while Britain is rapidly becoming the lesser of two evildoers. The maneuver, as transparent as a jigger of vodka, is simply designed to split Britain from...
...Nervous, white-haired Michio Ito, who had spent 20 years in the U.S. directing dance productions, had rehearsed the cast for two months. The 49-man Tokyo Philharmonic had been drilled on the tricky rhythms of Sullivan's music. Kiyoshi Takagi, as Ko-Ko, had learned how to sing "teet wiro. teet wiro." The producers had gambled a whopping 1,800,000 yen ($36,000) on the production. Reserved seats went for 80 yen, the highest theater prices in Japanese history...
Next day, the cast gave a consolation full-dress performance for itself behind locked doors. Stagehands, performers and hangers-on wept when it was over. The chorus sung by Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo and Pitti-Sing seemed peculiarly appropriate...
Like smart young Composer Gian-Carlo (The Medium) Menotti (TIME, March 3), Britten has written for a small cast and a chamber orchestra so that his opera can be performed easily and often. His newest music is easier to listen to than to sing. Said Baritone Frank Rogier, who sang the role of Seducer Tarquinius: "Any time you sound in tune with the orchestra, you're off. So you go in the other direction." But Britten's insistent, subtle use of rhythmic and dissonant backgrounds put a wallop into Librettist Ronald Duncan's seething play. The opera...
...established over a garage on Manhattan's West 56th Street. Billy's shows, which were bingo-bango-bungo stuff even in those early days, soon made the club popular with the better type of bootleggers and gangsters of the Prohibition era. Joe Frisco was M.C., and to sing his song. Billy hired a chorus girl with a voice as hot and blue as a gas flame-Helen Morgan...