Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story on music. I'm glad you stressed the country's community orchestras; they are doing a whale of a job. More than 2,250,000 people have attended the Los Angeles Bureau of Music's late spring, summer and early fall band concerts. The community-sing attendance is well over the million mark, despite the once-crippling inroads of television. We sponsor a citywide "Artists of the Future" youth voice contest and an avocational civic "pops" orchestra. Dig under the films, TV, radio and records, and the blandishments of the big names-the city...
...first U.S.-born Metropolitan Opera prima donna ever to sing in the U.S.S.R., Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom, came home with some wide-eyed observations about Soviet singers, recollections of a visit to a Kremlin museum, laurels from Moscow critics and audiences for wowing them with their sexiest Carmen ever. "We could learn from Russian musicians about colleague behavior," said Blanche without blanching visibly. "Tantrums and jealousy don't seem to exist in musical circles, and the tenors were so wonderfully flattering that they all forgot their lines in the love scenes...
...tinbasher" in a metal-box factory. He served for a time as a swimming-pool attendant on the Mauretania ("I noticed that most of those rich necks also carried plenty of wrinkles"), spent his layovers in Manhattan plunking coin after coin into the jukeboxes to hear Elvis Presley sing Heartbreak Hotel. When Tommy retired from the sea, he bought a guitar and sang for his meals in a succession of sleazy Soho clubs. British Songwriter Lionel Bart heard him, collaborated with him on Rock with the Caveman and helped turn him into a teen-age National Trust...
Other patients also had musical recollections. One heard a piano and saw the man playing it. A boy reported seeing men seated in chairs and hearing them sing. These were no hallucinations, but always the reproductions of actual experiences. Aside from music, patients have recalled a wide variety of incidents, usually trivial, often from childhood, and connected with the family or neighbors...
...Norwegian nightingale was born north of the Arctic Circle, and would probably never have had a singing career if the Norwegian army's general staff had not been quartered on her father's farm during the war. Not knowing how to awaken a man of the rank of General Otto Ruge, Norway's commander in chief, Aase's mother asked her 17-year-old daughter to sit at the organ and sing him awake. Ruge was so impressed that he urged her to study. Since then she has risen to opera stardom in Europe. Once, following...