Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he heard Christopher Lynch sing in Dublin, John McCormack said: "He is the one most likely to succeed me. . . ." For a year before his death last September, Tenor McCormack taught strapping, blue-eyed Tenor Lynch what he knew about singing...
...Opera (Sun. 7 p.m., Mutual). Anne McNight, protégée of Arturo Toscanini, and Baritone Todd Duncan sing duets from Mozart's Don Giovanni and Verdi's La Traviata...
M.G.M. has made much of the fact that Miss Williams and Johnson sing and dance in "Easy to Wed." Both are competent, neither will crash the Crosby-Astaire zone. The better of their two dances is accompanied by Ethel Smith on her organ, while the other has Carlos Ramirez following them around and breathing Latin love lyrics down their neeks...
...Sing a song of privilege, A pocketful of rank. Kick and beat the G.I.s Make 'em walk the plank...
Besides Cho-Cho-San, last week she sang the leading role of Nedda in Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci, an opera she had never seen. This winter she will be soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. As for ambitions to sing at the Met, chronically deaf to Negro voices, Camilla Williams says simply: "All opera singers aspire...