Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henderson came by his music naturally. His father was a theatrical producer who put on U. S. premières of Gilbert & Sullivan at the old Fifth Avenue Theatre. Ettie Henderson, his mother, was an ac tress, playwright and musician. She taught her son to sing and play when he was only seven...
...memorial to Theodore Roosevelt. Last summer he completed a Requiem Mass for his mother. At its world premiere in Vienna last week, the performers alone would have made it notable. A chorus from the Society of the Friends of Music united with the Wiener Sängerknaben Choir to sing with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. As leading soprano, Dusolina Giannini soloed eloquently for her dead mother...
...nagging wife, pretends to be a rich merchant, makes a monkey of the Sultan of Khaitan and marries the Sultan's daughter. Chamlee first took the part nine years ago at Ravinia Park (Chicago), later in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Lille and Brussels. When he arrived to sing his first Marouf in Paris, Composer Rabaud kept him up till 3 a.m. going over the score, called him a "delicious interpreter...
...last week's Marouf Tenor Chamlee showed the agreeable voice and the discreet musicianship people expect of him. Norman Cordon was comical as the suspicious, crack-voiced vizier. Pretty Nancy McCord, who used to sing in Broadway shows, made her Metropolitan debut as Princess Saamcheddine. She hit the proper notes, but acted woodenly and could not hide the fact that she has a pale, uninteresting voice. Listeners felt that the Metropolitan's Marouf was well worth repeating, but could not come up to last season's smash hit in English, The Bartered Bride...
...Saens Introduction and Royal March of the Lion Cocks and Hens Horses of Tartary (Fleet Animals) Tortoises The Elephant Kangaroos Personages with long ears The Cuckoo in the depth of the forest Pianists The Swan (Solo Violoncello: J. Langendoen) Finale Pianos: Jesus Maria Sanroma Leo Litwin *"Of Thee I Sing," Selection Gershwin *To a Wild Rose MacDowell *"Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...