Word: singe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Melton: Operatic Arias (Victor, 6 sides). The Metropolitan Opera tenor comes off better with two arias from Wagner, which he does not sing at the Met, than with two Mozart and two Massenet arias, which he does. Performance: good...
...tartness in contemporary political verse, "Sagittarius" of the London New Statesman easily tops the world. Last week she wrote carols that British Members of Parliament and American Congressmen might suitably sing to each other. After the British sang their thanks for "a gift with strings a-dangling," the Americans were to reply with "Good Lord Halifax" (to the tune of Good-King Wenceslas...
...Mary of the Angels' Song School continued the ancient tradition by having schoolboy Dennis McMichael of Birmingham "consecrated" in full panoply-mitre, crozier, and ring (see cut). Addlestone's 1945 boy bishop has no church duties, officiates in leading deputations of other boys to visit the sick, sing carols...
...current hit, The Way to the Tomb by Cornish Farmer Ronald Duncan, has St. Anthony as its topic, modern materialism for its target. The first half of the play, an austere masque, tells of Anthony's attempts to find God. The three monks who feed him, sing to him and argue with him represent his three temptations (the belly, the senses and intellectual pride); but even when he conquers fleshly pleasures through a death-fast, he has still to cast out the sin of pride...
...eats as many steaks as she can find, and cooks two hearty Yugoslav dishes - sarma (stuffed cabbage) and burek (meat and onion, wrapped in thin dough). Says she: "To look at me I still have plenty of flesh." When she made her debut in Yugoslavia at 19, she could sing only in Croatian. When Bruno Walter discovered her in Vienna, she had also learned to sing in German. Walter introduced her to Toscanini, who chose her to sing Verdi's Requiem at Salzburg in 1937. The Met brought her to the U.S. three months later. She knew neither Italian...