Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wise, witty and autumnal beauty in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. For years the part was the special glory of Opera Singer Lotte Lehmann, and its touch of middle-aging melancholy took on a special meaning for her as Soprano Lehmann herself gradually grew too old to sing it (her last Metropolitan Opera appearance in the role...
...third poem of this issue, "The Return of the Magi" by George Starbuck is neither ambitious nor very successful. It's about taking the Christ out of Christmas and the sing-songy rhythms and rhymes, while appropriate for the subject, walk the poem too hard in places. Elsewhere it stumbles over metrically awkward phrases or inconsistent imagery: "But when we got there the manger was bare./ The land was sore athirst." Consequently, the Magi seem to progress with the poem in a series of starts and stops. It is appropriate for them to stumble occasionally, but they never seem...
Announcer on Radio--And now we introduce a noo group being heard on the radio for the first time. It's a gang of seventeen-year-old kids from Phillips Academy called the BROMES. They're gonna sing, "Baby, You Jes' Wait...
...Marian Anderson, a stout and stately 55, took a relaxed look at this week's film digest of her 40,000-mile triumphal sing-swing through Asia earlier this year and said: "It has the look of having been made with love." So it had. The Lady from Philadelphia faithfully recorded the rich, heart-stirring artistry of the Negro woman who began as a Philadelphia choir singer; at the same time it illustrated how sharper than a diplomat's wile can be the sweet song of a woman of great talent and simple dignity. Contralto Anderson acknowledged...
Married. Mattiwilda Dobbs, 32, coloratura soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, second Negro woman (the first Marian Anderson) to sing at the Met; and Bengt Janzon, 44, public-relations director of the Royal Opera, Stockholm; both for the second time; in Manhattan...