Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next week, Harvard played Army. Since the Dartmouth Medley had met with great crowd approval, Anderson decided to present another. He took a tune from the George Gershwin hit musical "Of Thee I Sing", mixed in well-known melodies from Ivy League college songs, and produced "Wintergreen." It met with so much success that it has since become the closest thing to a theme song the band has in its repertoire...
McCabe's most successful ground-gainer last season, Dune Mauran, will be at fullback again this year and will probably carry much of the load. Hugh Edmends, a former varsity man, is quarterbacking along with Lee Pernice; Joe Broide and Bob Wiley are the first two wingbacks; Sing Dolan, Dusty Burke, and Dudley Celton the tailbacks. Dolan is out with a leg injury and won't be able to open the season against Army here Saturday morning...
...opening concert was almost more a tribute to the Orchestra than it was to Munch. It proved beyond question that the Boston Symphony Orchestra lies gleaming in its case like a fine musical instrument, ready to sing in the hands of any great virtuoso. It passes from Koussevitzky to Munch, each with a technique of his own; yet the latent quality of the instrument remains unchanged...
...from the almost packed symphony Hall, he really shows his genius as a ballad singer. He went through his program of 18 songs without straining his voice once even for the highest notes. When he had finished his program and the stamping of feet had begun he returned to sing nine more...
...concert variety. The best of these was an unaccompanied number called. "The wandering of Old Angus." It is a poem set to a simple and haunting chant by Yeats. This and songs like this are the true ballads of England, Ireland, and Scotland. Mr. Ives does not sing them in his night club repertoire...