Word: singe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liturgical Music, conducted by Mother Georgia Stevens, R.S.C.J.; Victor: 12 sides; $6.50). As glowing as a rose window, these early church melodies are sung to perfection by Mother Stevens' famed female choristers. (The Pius X School trains liturgical teachers chiefly, since women are ordinarily not supposed to sing in Catholic churches.) As result of a mix-up in pressing, however, Tenor Melchior (see above) displaces the choir on one record...
Majestic Soprano Nellie Melba was once asked by an eager young man if she would sing at a Manhattan morning musicale. "Sing!" snapped Melba. "I can't even spit at 11 a.m." But sing she did, and a whopping fee she got. That was nearly 50 years ago. After Melba, other great and near-great musicians jostled one another to perform for the dowagers at Albert Morris Bagby's Musical Mornings. Last January, in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, the 50th year of "the Bagbys," the 429th concert reached its end. For the first time dapper...
Back Where I Come From, directed by Nicholas Ray, comes mostly from the prodigious memories of Singer Ives and Scripter Lomax. Ives can sing for hours on any subject-love, death, the open road. For one ballad alone, There Lived an Old Lord on the Northern Sea, he knows 50 stanzas. When Woody Guthrie, "Okie" balladeer, was on the program, he and Alan Lomax spent an evening singing and listing songs about animals. In six hours they listed over 200. They stopped only because the neighbors were complaining...
...College will have ample opportunity to hear the Club sing in its annual series of spring concerts in the Yard...
...come for U. S. writers to fill the air full of the cause of democracy. Elmer Rice and Sherwood Anderson agreed. Together they shaped up an outfit called The Free Company, invited many another literary craftsman to join them in confecting a series of radio dramas designed to sing the various aspects of freedom in the U. S. This week, over a coast-to-coast hook-up (Sunday: 2-2:30 E. S. T.), The Free Company will get going. The Company's initial venture, characteristically entitled The People With Light Coming Out of Them, is some...