Word: singed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hear for themselves that the Met hadn't really changed its ways. The opening storm music that the Met's best conductor, Fritz Busch, whipped out of his pit orchestra was only faintly furious. Tenor Vinay sang powerfully, and what top notes he couldn't sing he shouted. But Booth's burnoose could not disguise his lurching, hand-wringing acting. Like most Met stage lovers, he more often sang of his passion to Conductor Busch, at whom he stared fixedly, than to Desdemona. The Bronx's burly Leonard Warren couldn't have sung...
...last night in Manhattan's City Center, he put on Richard Strauss's Salome as a dress rehearsal for his Chicago opening. He wasn't worried. Said Director Halasz: "My kids are like soldiers. They wait for their cue, and then when it is time they sing. They know if they don't sing there will be trouble tomorrow...
...mediocre affair" bringing out "the static quality of opera at its worst." Variety saw no TV future for opera until it was "devised specially for the medium. It will need new sets, new costumes, new staging, new makeup. And new singers. Singers who look the part as well as sing it. Otherwise-video speaking-it rates...
This year Cabot will rival Barnard's traditional right to remain the only Annex dormitory which goes caroling the college officials. The Cabot group will sing along Cambridge cobblestones next Wednesday evening, two days after Barnard choristers serenade the deans...
Seizing the Grimaces. His work does not sing, says Valéry flatly. "Grace and obvious poetry were not his objective." In his drawings, he seemed almost wholly concerned with the truth of what he saw. "His dancers and laundresses were seized in professionally significant attitudes which permitted him to ... analyze various poses never before of interest to painters. He abandoned the beautiful, soft, reclining bodies, the delectable Venuses and Odalisques . . . But he was intent on reconstructing the particular female animal, slave of the dance, the laundry or the street. These more or less deformed bodies he forced into unstable...