Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chorus (TIME, Nov. 17). The Don Cossacks, singers in a regiment stranded eleven years ago in a Bolshevik prison camp, won every U. S. audience which heard them with their perfect unity, their stunning crescendos, their fragile pianissimos. The U. S. likes its music obviously defined. The Don Cossacks sing very loudly or very softly, very high and very low. Boxofficially their short tour was last season's outstanding success. Last week from Manhattan they began a second tour. From New England to the Pacific Coast they will give 110 concerts, traveling by motor bus except when the weather...
...strictly co-operative basis. Conductor Serge Jaroff takes no more of the profits than the least important of the choristers. But like any military commander he has complete command. No singer may be delinquent about rehearsals. Because of tardiness last year one man was forbidden to sing in any of the Manhattan concerts...
...sick man, narrowly escaped from death, recently asked the woman who had nursed him if she would please sing him Venus' music from Tannhäuser. The request was no sick man's babbling. The woman happened to be a great singer. After her season with the Chicago Civic Opera Company last spring, she was preparing to sail for European engagements when a long-distance telephone call told her that a man whose identification papers mentioned her name was dying in a hotel in Springfield, Mass. The man, one Joseph McGriffs, had been brought up in Ohio...
...bandmaster and herself an able slide-trombonist. The Hammers interested Mrs. Leidy in a local opera venture; Mrs. Leidy interested her friends who bought boxes. The Hammers became managers, announced six performances for the first season. Mr. Hammer attended to the box-office while Mrs. Hammer persuaded artists to sing on a co-operative basis, borrowed sets and properties, concocted on her own sewing-machine cheesecloth costumes for Aïda, Carmen, Otello. Miraculously the first season ended without a deficit...
Quartet trials for admission to the Harvard Glee Club will be held this afternoon and tomorrow in the Music Building. The men who were provisionally admitted earlier in the fall will sing at these trials in quartets selected by Dr. A.T. Davison '06, director of the club, and final admission will be based on the showings made at this time...