Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...direct twelve, two more than Conductor Bruno Walter. To Walter was allotted Mozart's Don Giovanni and Marriage of Figaro, Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, Weber's Euryanthe. Conductor Hans Knapperts-busch, new to Salzburg, had the cards stacked in his favor. Rosa Pauly was to sing the title role in his production of Strauss's Elektra and nobody alive is better qualified. For the Marschallin in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, he was to have Soprano Lotte Lehmann...
...Hopkins. Gershwin sank so fast they had to operate before Dandy could get there. Next morning at 10:35 a. m., while his brother Ira watched over him, George Gershwin died. Serious musicians joined pluggers and crooners to mourn the 38-year-old composer who had made the world sing his songs and who never, even in his most pretentious work, disdained the antic, impertinent data he had picked up in Tin Pan Alley...
...songs like Somebody Loves Me, I Got Rhythm, Embraceable You, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off were ephemeral, Gershwin at least had the satisfaction of hearing a nation sing them. In the Pulitzer Prize musicomedy Of Thee I Sing, nothing was more memorable than his fantastic song, Of Thee I Sing, Baby. Raffish tunes from his Negro opera Porgy and Bess (I Got Plenty of No thin', A Woman Is a Sometime Thing, It Ain't Necessarily So), stole into the fanciest record albums in the U. S. Fox paid Gershwin $100,000 to write music...
...baby was born, was adopted by the grandparents and named Mary Joan Gibson. She died at the age of twelve days of bleeding at the navel. Her father went to Sing Sing; her mother married Walter Mitchell Schubert in 1936; her grandparents, dropped out of the Social Register, remained at "Tappancroft," their integrity and independence intact (TIME...
...corrupts a doctor, bulldozes an editor, terrorizes a college president and arranges for the assassination of a labor organizer. Mrs. Mister gives a clergyman his weekly dole and tells him what to say in his sermons. She keeps a painter and a musician on her string. The two sing a song which goes...