Word: singe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official asked the Jewish prisoners if they had any final requests. Yes, they wanted a rabbi to be with them in their last minutes. Said the officer: "You'll have to do without; we can't get one for you." Dov Gruner then asked if he might sing Hatikvah ("The Hope"), the Zionist anthem. The four men's voices rolled the mournful words of Zion...
Traditional performers at the final concert of the Symphony's Friday-Saturday series, the Glee Club will sing the Choral Symphony under Serge Koussevitaky's baton for the third consecutive year...
Says a Russian proverb: "A fish could sing a song if it had a voice." Last week, Russian fish (along with U.S. potatoes) told a story of Russia, Germany and peace that explained what was really happening at the Moscow Conference...
...meant plenty to many a middle-aged Vallee fan who had crammed into Chicago's Copacabana to hear him sing. Rudy's idea of up-to-date stuff was stale master-of-ceremonies patter and a try at ventriloquism. His routine was as wooden as his dummies (Ezry, Sally Ann and Linoleum). Only when he sang The Stein Song and As Time Goes By in his old nasal way did the crowd stop sitting on its hands...
...mind whether to ask its old star back. The New York Sun's critic Irving Kolodin thought it should not. To him, it was all right for Flagstad to hire a hall where the public could buy tickets or stay away; it was something else for her to sing at the Met, where the public buys season tickets months in advance, and has to accept whatever singers the management offers. Added Kolodin: "I have heard it said that the only factor to be considered is Mme. Flagstad's artistry. That view I cannot share, for artists are rational...