Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instrument that is handy - flute, clarinet, trombone, piano, harmonica, violin, all of which he learned to play as a child in Bulgaria. Son of a farm hand, he was raised in Velingrad, a mineral-bath resort high in the Rhodope Mountains. As a teenager, Ghiaurov had no interest in singing, gained fame in local circles as an actor and star athlete with the town soccer and volleyball teams. Drafted into the army for two years, he wangled a job as conductor of a 120-member chorus and orchestra, first discovered his vocal gifts while trying to teach others to sing...
...money into the Institute, has the full backing of many artists in his bid to gain the rights to make authorized one-copy-only tapes of live performances. "What wouldn't we give," says Striker, "to hear Paganini play his Caprices, or Malibran sing Bellini? The next generation may be as critical of us if we neglect to fully preserve the great music...
...there are only a couple or three guys on the stage, it's a lot of fun. Especially Nathan and Adelaide. Their real names are Peter Skolnik and Sydne Jo Kalet. They make faces together, and sing together, and sometimes she gets angry at him, and he gets down on his knees, and they look at each other real funny, and then she cries, and everybody applauds. They've got as much class as fuel injection...
...show. I'm going to do a show with variety. No sketches and no bad jokes. When Richard and Liz come on the show, he's going to do Camelot, and she's going to watch. When Sean Connery comes on, he's going to sing There Is Nothing Like a Dame the way he used to do when he was a chorus boy in London...
...trip is an idealistic one." Black said, "we want to communicate with these people by attempting to learn several local songs in the native language of each place we sing...