Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumors that several students would model the Pierian sing were untrue...
...Soviet Government last week dangled a pretty prize before faithful Communists. Until recently it was almost as hard for a Russian to leave the Soviet as for a prisoner to escape from Sing Sing, but lately authorities have felt that conditioning of the young has advanced to the point where a certain amount of contact with the bourgeois world will be safe. For 500 hand-picked Soviet citizens there has been rumored a three-week excursion to France, Russia's one big ally, and a visit to the Paris Exposition. This will cost the workers 5,000 rubles each...
...Easton, Pa., the Lincoln Cathedral Choir of Lincoln, Neb., the Roth Quartet playing in Princeton, the University of Michigan Band. Pennsylvania alone arranged 50 special programs. Pittsburgh played orchestral works written by Pittsburghers. Los Angeles put on Charles Wakefield Cadman's Indian opera Shanewis. New Orleans had choruses sing in schools and playgrounds. In Indianapolis, over an NBC hookup, 275 pianists sat down at 150 pianos and played them all at once...
...mezzo roles. Last autumn she sang the exacting role of Leonora in Munich, Prague and Stockholm, but saved her U. S. soprano debut for the spring season. Audiences rejoiced that personable Miss Bampton was trustworthy in the high notes, could hit D without difficulty, would now be able to sing soprano heroines instead of old, villainous contralto women...
...Spring concerts on the steps of Widener, thus continuing a custom which forms an integral and valuable part of Harvard life. The whole ceremony is conducted in a pleasant, easy and informal fashion. The program is a combination of classical music and lighter pieces. The calibre of the singing is excellent, but there is no attempt at regimentation, as there is at Princeton, where everyone must stand up for certain songs, and only certain classes may sing others. To leave a Princeton song session, or be inattentive, would be considered sacrilege. This same informality and pleasant lack of regimentation...