Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seeger noted that HUAC had asked him about three songs: "The Hammer Song," "Midnight Special," and "Wasn't That a Time?" but refused to listen to him sing them...
...Opera in Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc, who had been impressed by her concert performance of his songs. Although she "enjoyed a real cold petrification," the debut was a major success. On the strength of it, she was invited to return to San Francisco that year to sing Aïda in place of Antonietta Stella, bedridden with an appendectomy. She had become familiar with the role when she sang it with the Philadelphia Orchestra. A year later at Covent Garden, when Anita Cerquetti was forced to withdraw from Aïda for the same reason, Leontyne again...
...associate, her "big tragedy is that she doesn't want to be colored." Her brother George and most of her friends disagree. "She's not battling that," says Teacher Kimball, "or she couldn't sing the way she does." Says Leontyne herself: "I am not a crusader in anything except my career." Often when she talks about her race, it is in joking fashion. The dusky Aïda she refers to as her "makeup-saver role." Once a wardrobe mistress forgot and warned her about soiling her light costume with the dark Aïda makeup...
...temper to match. Told not long ago that a male singer was unable to make a rehearsal, she raged: "I don't give a hoot about him or any other singer. He's lucky to be in this with me, dear. That jerk-he can't sing because he hasn't got any vocal technique, that's why!" After such an out burst she is likely to shrug her shoulders, smile and murmur, "I don't know why I get so excited...
...southern Mississippi usually pops out first. After her Met debut she encountered Metropolitan General Manager Rudolf Bing backstage. He asked how she was. "Mr. Bing," said Leontyne, "I'm havin' a ball." Later that night, at a party in her honor, a guest asked her to sing something. "Nobody's gonna leave this party unhappy," said Leontyne. She broke into Summertime...