Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are exceptions. The Fox, illustrated by Peter Spier (Doubleday; $2.95), has delicate, colored pen drawings, and the text, an old song, is good enough to sing. Mary Britton Miller's Listen-the Birds, illustrated by Evaline Ness (Pantheon; $3), achieves unpatronizing verse. The poet knows enough about chickadees to know they actually say chicka-dee-dee-dee, but the child who hopes to see live birds like the ones illustrated will be sadly deceived. James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl (Knopf; $3.95), has illustrations in good old-fashioned pen and ink, though the subject matter...
...Aviva play the drum and flute (recorder) in a concert on Elektra records which is a very fine introduction to the genre of composed folk songs. (The Dudaim (whose name comes from doo- dah which is added a Hebrew suffix indicating more-than-one) are a duo, and they sing of Israel" on a Columbia recording. There are a great many other recordings of Israeli folk music; I mention two which do not include songs well-known to certain of us (such as "Hava Negila," which is now making a hit as a rock 'n' roll tune under another title...
...party of police, fire, and building inspectors closed the Club Oct. 30, several hours before the scheduled start of a second "Sing Out for SANE...
Filmed on a Sunday afternoon in April, the day of a scheduled protest, the documentary shows folksingers staging a sit-down to assert their right to sing in Washington Square. The City Park Commissioner and the police met the demonstrators and broke up the crowd, arresting those who refused to leave...
EILEEN FARRELL, 41, made her leisurely way to the Metropolitan last season, long after critics had conceded she was the best dramatic soprano in America. "It didn't give me any special satisfaction to sing at the Met," she said coolly after her debut in Gluck's Alcestis. "I never had any great drive to be a singer." The drive may not have been great, but almost from the start the singing was. A onetime successful radio singer, with her own show, Farrell soon branched into recitals and concert-form operas, where she displayed a warm, vibrant voice...