Word: singe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every August there was a visit to her maternal grandmother, the Countess of Strathmore, where Elizabeth and Margaret could romp in the ancient corridors of Macbeth's Castle Glamis. There were English Christmases at Sandringham, where the whole family gathered to sing carols, play charades, Dumb Crambo, Animal Grab and Consequences, and dance the Sir Roger de Coverley. And always & everywhere there were friendly relatives, dogs and horses...
Disliking nothing more than musical sluggishness, he keeps the Harvard and Radcliffe singers doting by his sustained vitality rather than by the everpresent Koussie Woody interludes. His worst comment is, "You haven't got the guts to sing," but it is followed by an expansive smile, and suddenly the volume swells miraculously. Glee Club members recall a rehearsal of "Casey Jones," in which the coaching was so graphic that a Radcliffe girl who had wandered in decided to leave. Since then rehearsals have been closed to the fairer...
...midnight. Afterwards he takes home recordings of the rehearsal, to check the orchestral balance. He allows radio engineers no easy tricks either. In La Traviata, a chorus is supposed to approach from afar. A simple way to get the radio effect was to have the chorus stand still and sing with increasing volume; Toscanini insisted that the chorus go off stage, approach gradually...
...world loading with rich Argentine produce. Patiently they bore the midsummer heat (Paraguay would be hotter), queued for food, washed themselves at one open hydrant, spoke in Plattdeutsch of husbands, sons and brothers not yet given up for lost. Sometimes at night a few gathered around an accordion to sing "Now thank we all our God, with hearts and hands and voices...
...parents that I'm going for to sing...