Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three: fawning eulogies of steady booster Nikita Khrushchev. . . . Wealthy Pasta King Giovanni Buitoni's money is in his tummy, but his heart is really in his throat. The 68-year-old macaroni maker is going into opera, he says, to "fulfill one of my fondest dreams," will sing the basso profundo role of Don Basilic in a charity performance of The Barber of Seville with a Manhattan opera company early next year. Signora Buitoni. an ex-coloratura soprano who knows all about Giovanni's booming arias, will attend his operatic debut. "After that," quipped Buitoni. "she will probably...
...stones heavy enough to place around their necks and drown them all! In all my 35 years of managing artists, I never quite got used to the sharp little men who tell me where Madame is to be booked, what fee she is to be paid, who is to sing with her and what the critics will have to write. Somewhere in the brain of every prima donna there is a deep craving for security and comfort, linked with fear of old age. This causes her to pick a man who is prepared to act as a permanent wet nurse...
Surovy steered Rise into Carmen, her most famous Met role, and over her objections that she wanted to sing Bach and Gluck, he also got her to sing Carmen Jones, Showboat and other light fare. Result : while her operatic career has declined (she is now 47, he is 50), Stevens is still in demand for concert and TV performances. Surovy handles all the "commercial work" for his wife with such success that "if we ever got divorced, I think she'd still retain me as her personal manager." ¶Enrique Magrina, 38, was a law student at the University...
...sake of appearances. The Clan last week behaved with admirable propriety. Frankie wore his hairpiece, snarled at not more than one photographer, and offered to sing a solo at the convention (offer declined). Pee-tah wore conservative grey suits and tried not to be conspicuous (Den Mother Shirley MacLaine, a kook in her own right, was for Adlai, so she did not count). Naturally, there were gala parties. Frankie sang new words to All the Way: May I be emphatic? I'm Italian Democratic- All the way. I know it sounds cutting, But we've had enough...
...Lost City Ramblers, a trio of college men, sing a brand of hillbilly known as "Blue Grass." Born in Kentucky, the style calls for a complex string accompaniment-in this case on five-string banjo, fiddle and guitar-and a frenetically fast vocal line unreeled to a foot-slapping accompaniment. The Ramblers learned their best songs-Beware, O Take Care and Hopalong Peter-from such fabled Blue Grass groups as the Buckle-Busters and Dr. Smith's Champion Horse-Hair Pullers...