Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insisting that consonants as well as vowels be stressed, introducing a kind of staccato syllabification that somehow managed not to obscure the text. What gave Dido its strange and haunting power was the deft balance of the vocal writing-so carefully calculated that all 32 choristers were able to sing together without destroying the work's flexible texture...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Rhonda Fleming, Mischa Elman, Anna Moffo, Nicolai Gedda, Earl Wrightson and Benny Goodman and his orchestra sing and make music. Color...
...Pistache, director W. W. Hillier chose someone who can act but not sing, which took a certain amount of guts. Anne Chittenden is a perfect Pistache for the most part, but there are times, there are times. Miss Chittenden succeeds with "C'est Magnifique," but she has a little trouble with "Allez-Vous-En." And if all the acting ability in the world could carry off "I Love Paris," Miss Chittenden might have done it; some songs, though, simply have to be sung...
...Havana the ransom delegation was welcomed with hand-rubbing expectation. Castro himself saw to the customers, and after 5½ hours of haggling agreed to release 60 men-all of them sick or wounded. As the pathetic captives arrived in Miami, 6,000 weeping exiles tried to sing the Cuban national anthem. The sight of the men choked it off; some were on crutches, one man bravely saluted with his left hand -his right arm had been shot away...
...radiant and lovely in green silk, waited with queenly patience for the many latecomers who tramped in throughout the whole first section of the program, doing their best to mar the splendid repose of the opening song, Bach's Bist Du bei mir. Those who knew Madame Schwarzkopf's singing only from her recordings may have been a bit disappointed by the first two groups of songs, for her voice has not quite the purity and control of four or five years ago, and the acoustics of the HST seem bright and clear almost to a fault. Handel's Care...