Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...between the U.S. and the rest of the world," he says, but there is no doubt that recognition at home is what pleases him most. "I played part of Porgy recently," he recalls, "and a member of the cast told me, 'You don't play it; you sing it.' That," says Adler, "is what every musician is trying...
Your Hit Parade (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Dorothy Collins and Johnny Desmond sing taps at the funeral of a show that, since 1935, has taken everything the tunesmiths and a faddist public could throw at it, is finally succumbing to the effects of rock 'n' roll...
Although the rest of the Requiem never regains the magnificence of this opening movement, there are other high points, including the tender "Sing with the Spirit," the moving "Walk as Children of Light," and the virtuosic "Sing unto Him." Throughout the piece, Thompson demonstrates his absolute command of the choral idiom, and ability to produce a variety of effects without lapsing into mere showiness. His cadences perhaps lean too heavily on the received value of a rich pianissimo close, but, for the most part he does not substitute sound effects for more serious and difficult musical tasks, but uses...
...many modern American composers, was a source of both income and inspiration. Koussevitsky, Thompson recalls, "had a genius for challenging you into writing a work. It was at his insistance that I composed, on extremely short notice, a chorus for all the students at Tanglewood to sing at the festival's dedication in 1940. He made it sound like the most important commission ever offered a composer...
...general, these procedures worked very well. Mr. Beveridge was wisely discreet in composing "Sing to Me Through Open Windows": his few touches set off the material of the drama without getting in its way. Unfortunately, the purely musical effects were partially obscured because no one saw fit to adjust the loudspeaker volume above the mezzo-piano level...