Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge Police Chief Daniel J. Brennan charged yesterday that the bomb scare before last Sunday's "Sing Out for SANE" was "a publicity stunt." He denied that the scare was staged by the Police Department...
...previously tipped-off "bomb scare" came close but did not succeed in cancelling a "Sing Out for SANE" program last night at M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium...
...produces plenty of good voices, but it frequently falls short when it comes to exercising them: the likes of Leontyne Price and Anna Moffo had to go to European houses to learn how to sing with professional skill. A major exception to that failing is Soprano Phyllis Curtin, who made an immensely successful Metropolitan Opera debut this season in Cosi fan Tutte. Soprano Curtin was also a smash in Europe before she came to the Met, but her European success merely topped off a career patiently built in America. Last week, as she followed a superbly rousing performance of Strauss...
...Musty Museum. Her repertory there was as unorthodox as her career-heavy on modern works, notably Floyd's Wuthering Heights and Susannah, both of which she introduced. Although she knew that "no one pays much attention to the artist" in modern works, she continued to sing them because she believed that "no opera house should be a musty museum." Her conviction paid off: in a reversal of form, which usually finds U.S. directors hunting for stars in Europe, the Vienna Staatsoper heard her, shortly after gave her a contract. That merely proves, says Soprano Curtin, that singers with Made...
Cheerleaders cartwheel giddily across the grass and trumpets blare the notes of familiar fight songs. Undergrads guzzle brandy, nuzzle girl friends, nibble fingernails and lustily sing the praises of alma mater. Such are the sights and sounds of college football for most fans-but not for the pro scout. Cold-eyed and calm in the midst of it all, he perches in some remote corner of the stadium, clutching his notebook and pencil. His sound is the smack of leather meeting leather, and his sight is the glimpse of a crumpling block, a tooth-rattling tackle, or a precisely executed...