Word: singe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a Serbian proverb, from the time of the Turks, which says that when Serbia is threatened the peasants pick up their guns and sing. Serbia's peasants marched and sang last week. So did the peasants of Bosnia, of Macedonia and of Montenegro. At Kragujevac in Old Serbia they marched round & round the village singing Oi Serbio! At Skoplje in South Serbia they sang Macedonian revolutionary songs. At Berane in Montenegro they sang battle songs from the days of the Turkish-Montenegrin wars. At Banja Luka in Bosnia they sang Be Ready, Komitadjis...
...Herr Walter conducted the Met's only opera-in-English: Smetana's The Bartered Bride. This was no victory for the vernacular; it seemed tactless to sing it in German, as has been done in the past, and no one but the soprano, Jarmila Novotna, could sing in the opera's native Czech...
...their annual spring trip this year, the Glee Club will pay visits to five cities in the South and will sing one concert in New York. They will wind up with a performance in the Harvard Club on April...
Before the trip, the Glee Club will sing Liszt's "Faust" in Symphony Hall with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Friday and Saturday nights. Another part of the Club will also present a concert on Friday, open to the public, in the Boston Art Museum...
...outlet for popular music. The late guitar-toting Jimmie Rodgers, onetime brakeman on the Southern Railway, helped start the boom, on Victor hillbilly records a dozen years ago. Now Victor's Bill Boyd, Columbia's Gene Autry, Bob Wills, Bonnie Blue Eyes and Patsy Montana sing to the nation the songs that Texas makes. And the Kapp brothers, who run Decca, see to it that Bing Crosby croons the Texas sellers...