Word: singe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweet, soft voice texture which stirred and delighted Chicagoans, Father Finn achieved by instructing high sopranos to sing moo; low sopranos, mee; first altos, mah; second altos, maw. "When you hear them mooing and making and everything, it's like listening to a lot of flutes...
...little Martensdale, Iowa (pop. 172), worshipers at St. Paul's Lutheran Church (membership: 170) will hear ten farm boys & girls and the local hardware merchant sing such stirring old favorites as Christ, the Lord, Is Risen Today and Jesus Lives...
...their polyphonic styles. Most ministers and congregations are either indifferent or hostile to change. Volunteer smalltown choirs, unopposed by professionals, are still enthusiastically flatting their way through the complicated, sentimental standbys. And even in Manhattan-hotbed of the classicist movement-one of the two old hymns that Martensdale will sing will also be heard in 70% of the big city's churches this Easter...
Main reason the ardent purists have not been more successful is that congregations like to sing. Listening to Palestrina, however purely performed, is not the same thing at all. Many a churchgoer has come to feel that the service is already less for the congregation than for the choir, and he resents any fresh attempts to turn his place of worship into what is beginning to look like a mere concert hall...
...Decca records, which Crosby has helped to make, put out statistics which offered a partial answer. Crosby can sing almost any type of song, and sing it well. His best-sellers are a ballad (White Christmas, 1,700,000 records), a hymn (Silent Night, 1,500,000), a cowboy song (Don't Fence Me In, 1,250,000), a romantic love song (Sunday, Monday and Always, more than one million...