Word: singe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hathaway is black. "The journey through black America," he reports, "revealed that a new kind of silent majority is emerging among blacks. This is not the kind of majority that throws rocks or Molotov cocktails. Nor does it march or sing We Shall Overcome." This new black majority is aroused and vengeful, hardened by events- the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., police raids on the Panthers, the pullback on integration. "All this has created new tensions, new fears in the black community," Hathaway says. "It seems to have drawn people closer together. Tragically, as that happens, black America pulls...
Scene 1: A Southern plantation in the 1840s. A group of black slaves (then known as darkies) sits around a ramshackle log cabin. One strums a banjo-a cigar box and a stick strung with horsehair-as they sing...
...least we were children of God. At some far-off point in time, all these things would be rectified and we would get our golden slippers. Our religion had to mean more to us. We had to emote, we had to lose ourselves in it. We had to sing and shout, and after it was all over we had to have a big meal and have something going on Sunday afternoon. Because when Monday came, it was back out into the fields, or back to the janitor's job, or back in Miss Ann's kitchen scrubbing...
Under Forbes, the two choral groups continued to sing with the Boston Symphony and to perform large works on campus-two trends begun by Woodsworth...
...been singing with Joan Sutherland since 1961. "It's like a fairy tale," Marilyn explains their collaboration. "We never have to work to sing together. We just learn our parts and come together, and it's been there all along." Her next new role will be as Fidès in Meyerbeer's Le Prophète, which she will sing this summer both in Turin and London. "Fidès is Norma for contraltos," she explains. "I'm looking forward to it." Meanwhile Rudolf Bing, the Met and its followers can look forward...