Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John H. Carlson, a close friend and confidant of O'Keefe's, suddenly vanished-apparently the victim of a "ride." Sixteen months ago Specs O'Keefe went back to jail in Springfield for gun-carrying and violation of parole. Brooding there last week, he decided to sing...
...thing, a prison-camp killing is placed not only on stage, but down-stage, the body lying like a sack of potatoes, almost in the first row. This is done largely for the sake of ironic contrast with the song "California, here I come," which the prisoners sing to prevent the guards from hearing. If the killing were withdrawn slightly into the upstage darkness, the ironic effect could be retained, and an unnecessary awakwardness would be avoided. In matters of dramatic death, one inclines to feel that, after all, the Greeks knew best...
...trim as she was when she first defied the stereotyped bovine heft of oldtime grand divas, tiny (5 ft. ½ in., 109 Ibs.) French-born Singer Pons graciously took her curtain calls, then used her special brand of English to thank Met-goers for "all those years I have sing in this wonderful house...
...romantic work, but he never bowed to its maudlin potentialities. His tone was neither too plump nor too lean, but pure, tense and silken. He sculpted the long, melodic lines precisely, restraining himself where a lesser musician might have whipped up some phony passion, then letting his instrument sing passionately, when passion was called for. Next day Critic Roger Dettmer wrote in the American that Starker "has grown from an important cellist to an incomparable one," and the rest of the press gave echo...
...recognized center of Catholic liturgical music. The monks have made recordings that are known around the world; choirmasters and music lovers look to the monastery as a place of pilgrimage. From Matins at 5:30 a.m. through Lauds, Prime, Mass, Sext, None, Vespers and Compline, the monks sing their way through each day, striving always for perfection. If one flats a note or stumbles over a word he falls to his knees in penance...