Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wish you could have given it more space, because it was one of the finest examples of love and fellowship ever expressed among the races. We white people were only too glad to sit on the aisle floor to hear this gifted and great person return home and sing to us all. She not only received ovations; she brought tears to our eyes, and none of us, either colored or without color, could care less about Miss Price's color or her fame...
...square meal and a bed. In Australia a few months later, members of the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association looked up from an outdoor luncheon to see one of their members approaching followed by "a wandering Yank who sort of popped in and wants to sing us a song." Buddy gave them up-tempo renderings of Waltzing Matilda and Seven Old Ladies. The N.S.W.T.A. members responded with For He's a Jolly Good Fellow and a gift of a tennis racket and a pair of sneakers. While in Australia Buddy even acquired an agent-as the price...
...curtain time last week, Italian opera fans had promised to fill the theater and boo Von Karajan right off the podium. Tenor Gianni Raimondi, who was hired to sing the role, was getting threatening phone calls for betraying his countryman. Said Di Stefano: "I'm seriously thinking of going to live in Katanga, where they are more civilized...
...showed up at La Scala to rehearse Rodolfo in a new production of La Boheme under Austria's Herbert von Kara Jan. he was stopped by La Scala's tearful manager. "Oh, dear Di Stefano," said the manager, "Von Karajan doesn't want you because you sing the Che gelida manina a halftone down...
SACKED BY VON KARAJAN. Cried the headlines, and Di Stefano announced he would sue La Scala and Von Karajan for defamation of character. Von Karajan denied he knew Di Stefano had even been signed to sing with him, and when La Scala paid Di Stefano his regular $10,000 fee despite the fact that he was not going to perform. Giuseppi simmered down. But not his friends. "Don't let yourself be insulted by a foreigner," they cautioned him. Quickly working himself back into a proper Sicilian rage, Di Stefano turned his $10,000 over to the Italian Opera...