Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Persichetti's tunes are fresh and sing able; their lyrics contain more surprises...
...Irving Fine's Alice in Wonderland music. Also of recent vintage was "The Promise of Living" from Copland's opera The Tender Land. This warm work needs a slightly larger body of singers. The concert ended with Vaughan William's hearty Let All the World in Every Corner Sing, which wanted only a more robust accompaniment...
Thus all that the cast must do is sing properly some of the loveliest airs ever written, and, with a few minor exceptions, this they all do. There is little to be said about Shirley Jones as Polly Peachum; I can not conceive of the role's ever having been played any better. Jack Cassidy, a bold and dashing Macheath, lacks the noble voice of Miss Jones, but sings most pleasingly. George Irving triumphs as scheming Mr. Peachum; both in his comedy bits and arias he is Peachum as Gay must have envisioned him. Zamah Cunningham as his wife, however...
...sing of arms and the man," wrote Virgil rather pointedly in The Aeneid. It remained for World War II to spawn the bards of basic training camps, staging areas, supply depots and paper-shuffling rear echelons. These latter-day laureates all agree that war gets funnier and funnier in direct proportion to its distance from the firing line, and sometimes prove it, e.g., See Here, Private Hargrove, Mister Roberts, No Time for Sergeants. Though it works harder for its laughs and gets fewer of them, Don't Go Near the Water may enjoy a like success. A Book...
...always hear Watson and almost always understand him. Through his sincere and intelligent performance, it can accept him as Henry V. But somehow it can never forget that he is up there reciting lines that are not Henry's but Shakespeare's--and often reciting them in a regrettable sing-song voice at that. Some of the other actors are more successful with their words. Thayer David as the King of France incorporates them beautifully into his scared, vacillating character. Sylvia Gassel as Mistress Quickly has a lovely, silvery scene of mourning over the death of Falstaff. Felicia Montealegre...