Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week Eleanor Roosevelt announced that when King George & Queen Elizabeth visit the U. S. in June, Marian Anderson "probably" will sing for them at the White House...
...carefully selected audience Conductor Stokowski played full-weight symphonic programs. But he punctuated them with speeches, quips, unprogrammed surprises. He held conversations with them across the footlights, let them wriggle, whistle, cheer, shout, sing, throw paper darts. Once, when they dared him to, he brought down the wrath of Philadelphia's Tories by playing the Internationale. Stokowski's Youth Concerts became the most jam-packed events of the Philadelphia Orchestra's season. Optimistic highbrows felt that a sizable percentage of Philadelphia's jitterbugs had been saved for Beethoven...
Summoned to a Bronx, N. Y. traffic court for illegal parking, Henry Worthington Armstrong,* who in 1903 composed the music for Sweet Adeline (original title: Sweet Rosalie), was asked by Magistrate Richard McKiniry to sing the ballad's seldom-heard verse (what every crooner knows is merely the chorus). Composer Armstrong cleared his throat, sang, "In the evening when I sit alone a-dreaming . . ." was shortly interrupted by the critical magistrate: "I ought to fine you for your singing, but I won't. Sentence suspended...
...violin in Philadelphia in 1932. Since then he has toured Europe's concert halls twice, had a Town Hall recital, sung with the New York Philharmonic (Children's Concert) and the Boston Symphony, is now soloist at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston. He wants to sing Wagner...
...Negro show like its Federal Theatre rival, The Hot Mikado kisses the Old Boys good-by at about the eighth bar of the first song, turns Titipu into a dance hall before latecomers are in their seats, makes Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing and Peep-Bo carry on like three little maids from reform school, and finishes Act I in an uproar when Katisha busts in, no hatchet-faced termagant, but an eye-rolling, hip-shaking, torch-singing Red Hot Mama...