Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...authoritative spokesman for Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms, but he is more concerned with his approach to the whole repertoire than with mastering any special part of it. "We must apply the technique of the singer to the instruments," he says. "A musi cian has to feel that he is sing ing, supporting the music by the breath. The breath is your soul. The breath is your life-the only divine part...
...college song has become the great American mumble. In a day when Hail to Thee, Oh Fink might best express "school spirit," the old Alma Mater idea seems "too hot-rocket" to kids unwilling to give "that kind of allegiance just to a college." Dissenters refuse to rise and sing because "your blanket falls off." Princeton hearts pound at Old Nassau, but Princeton mouths go da di da. Even Georgia Tech's "ramblin' wrecks" sing to the Alma Mater in a vast hum, as of bees. South Benders "cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame," but the sacred second...
...informal survey yesterday afternoon, many girls expressed surprise that the college should be concerned at all about apartment sing-outs. Several girls felt that any attempt to restrict sing-outs would not change the real situation, but merely cause dishonesty...
Impresario Aurelio Fabiani, who pro motes wrestling when he isn't baby sitting, raced after him, pleading and cajoling. After a long, cooling walk in the streets, Di Stefano agreed to sing -on one condition: the programs must be gathered up and brought to his dressing room. The curtain went up 25 minutes late, and Di Stefano sang nicely, step ping out of character at every hint of applause to bow grandly. The ushers snatched the offending programs back from his dressing room at the final cur tain and passed them out to the departing crowd. Thus those whose...
...last survivors of the "golden age" of opera singers, a tiny Milanese with a flutelike voice who was a sensation at her 1908 debut in Rigoletto at Trani (a provincial Italian town where she was paid $60 a month), moved to the U.S. in 1916 to sing the great coloratura roles (Rosina, Lucia, Lakmé) with both the Metropolitan and Chicago Operas earning up to $15,000 a performance while on tour, retired in the 1930s to California but continued through her many recordings to haunt opera buffs and reigning coloraturas alike; of emphysema; in La Jolla, Calif...