Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winthrop House Music Society has played the dramatic field at Harvard cautiously, sticking closely to tired-and-true Gilbert and Sullivan productions. Last night, however, the Victorian wonder boys got the sack as the Winthrop House Music Society staged a successful and entertaining performance of Of Thee I Sing...
Politics is always fair game for a laugh, and Of Thee I Sing is about a presidential election, and John P. Wintergreen (you know, Win-ter-green for Pre-si-dent), and his true love, Mary ("I'm the only person in the world who can make corn muffins without corn."). John's platform is love, the kind that sweeps the country as he proposes to Mary in all 48 states. "We appeal to your hearts, not your intelligence," the campaign manager announces, and John, of course, wins the election...
...Winthrop House production of George Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing opens tonight in the Winthrop House Dining Hall...
...lost remarkably little of its magnificent luster, still has a meltingly eloquent sensuousness and superb dramatic projection. Widowed (since 1946) Soprano Flagstad was recently appointed director of the new Norwegian Opera, will be the only woman running a major opera house in Europe. "It is not natural to be singing at my age," she says, "but then I am not losing my voice. I just sing and sing, and it keeps me young...
...audience "orchestrate" with him-buzz to simulate loud strings, sing "tick, tick, tick" for a woodwind sound and "takata" for the brasses. "Oo," he commented, "seemed to me sort of bluish. When we sang 'takata' it seemed like a fiery orange." With a flick of the wrist in midsentence, he would bring in the 107-man New York Philharmonic to illustrate his points, rapidly skipping from Mozart to Stravinsky to Hindemith. The finale: a rousing performance of Ravel's Bolero, part of which he compared to "very high class hootchy-kootchy music...