Word: singe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly a century the Paris Tannhäuser remained the most frequently performed version of the opera. Audiences loved the voluptuous new bacchanale; sopranos preferred to sing the more dramatic music of Venus. But eventually purists objected to the musical schizophrenia in the work, and came to prefer the earlier Dresden Tannhäuser. All the recordings, too, used the Dresden score until last week, when London released the first LPs of the Paris version-a premiere of sorts...
...story that Chevalier returned periodically to the Berlitz School to perfect his French accent in English. Chevalier was marked by America long before he saw the Statue of Liberty. "My first influence was the American music hall," he has explained. "I remember seeing the Tiller girls in Paris sing Yankee Doodle Dandy with that crazy tempo. I went mad. What I did was to mix the American novelty and old French humor so that even to the French I was something new." It was that new-old French humor that came across in his best-loved chansons, Valentine, Ma Pomme...
...mandolin, guitar), in the styles used by such groups as Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers, Byrd Moore and his Hot Shots, and Dr. Humphrey Bate and the Possum Hunters, to name but a few of the groups from which the Ramblers derive their repertoire. They play old breakdowns, sing ballads, party songs--in short, whatever the mountain people played...
...lance photographer when he joined the Ramblers. Not only has he continued to practice photography, but he has also edited a number of books, designed record covers, written essays and criticisms on the music, made films of rural life and its music and has been a frequent contributor to Sing Out! magazine...
...Rabbit is always out of step with (perhaps, ahead of) his times. The culture permeating society in 1969 no longer shares his new assumptions. Even in Rabbit's running days, America was not a land where the individual counted all that much, but there was still Jiminy Cricket to sing that "you couldn't ask a waterfall to be a tree." In Redux, when Rabbit and Nelson watch television, the Lone Ranger is mocked, and even Tonto involved in general degradation. To Rabbit, "America is beyond power, it acts as in a dream as a face of God. Wherever America...