Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saturday, December 18 THIS PROUD LAND (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). A special celebrating the Great Plains and the Rockies, narrated by Robert Preston, Laraine Day and Mildred Dunnock; music by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Rosebud Sioux Indians, who will sing their new tribal song, Seventy-Six Trombones...
...Tenor Saxman Wayne Shorter, Mood by Bassist Ronald Carter). Sometimes the drum, bass and piano drive the soloists, but mostly they provide only phantom rhythms under the fluid runs and fragmentary phrases of the trumpet and tenor sax. No one will be tempted to tap a foot or sing along, but few with any E.S.P. at all will stop listening...
...SING A SONG OF BASIE (Impulse!) A reissue of the 1957 recording that first spotlighted Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross. By singing over their own voices on tape (a process that took 60 hours of recording time), the three remarkably flexible jazz singers create an exciting vocal equivalent of Basic's big band (accompanied by a real Basie rhythm section). Together, the trio sounds the brasses or the reeds, then Annie Ross sings a bright trumpet solo (in Blues Backstage) or with Hendricks a mellow saxophone duet (Two for the Blues...
...find actual malice after Rose left the legislature: Rose's professorship at the state university did not make him a public official. Thus advised, the jury awarded Rose $20,000 from Gerda Koch and Christian Research Inc. "I told my friends I would stand by the truth and sing praises to the Lord no matter what," said the defendant as she promised to appeal. If she keeps her promise, she may give the Supreme Court a chance to set some needed limits on libel by clarifying what the Times decision meant by "public official...
Pace is the problem. Richard's Wilbur's rhyming translation has far too many end-stopped lines for any but experienced actors to read naturally. The conversation at the beginning of the play, before Tartuffe's entrance, had a sing-song quality that made it hard to follow. Throughout the evening the rest of the characters tended to lapse into a regularity more faithful to the translator's iambics than their own emotions...