Word: singed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although I have heard them sing better, the Chorus sounded very good Friday night. Assistant Conductor Dan Gsovsky (who conducted the entire program due to Mr. Mickiewicz's illness) seemed at times to be pulling the music out of them. They responded superbly, singing with much power and involvement, and covering a range of emotions from deep melancholy to fierce patriotism. Songs of the steppes, the Volga, and the Battle of Borodino were for them as charged with emotion as they are for most Russians. The audience was infected with their spirit, and literally stomped them back on stage...
...have seldom heard a chorus sing so unanimously. Technical details were executed to a man, providing in a song such as "I'll Go to the Valley" a pianissimo that Verdi would have been jealous of. When the director called for lightness, they sang like five men instead of fifty; when he called for force, they bowled the audience over...
...wasn't tending to his duties as town assessor of Bradford, Pa. When the family moved to Long Beach, Calif., Marilyn joined the Roger Wagner Chorale, later won a voice scholarship to the University of Southern California where she flunked, among other things, opera workshop for refusing to sing Carmen (she did not feel ready for the role). She spent her time instead singing avant-garde music at the Hollywood Bowl under the direction of Igor Stravinsky, dubbed in the singing voice for Dorothy Dandridge in the movie Carmen Jones, was a disembodied voice in Hollywood's Flower...
...Europe "to have a place where I could be lousy and make all my mistakes." After a year of study in Vienna, she sang for three years with Germany's Gelsenkirchen Municipal Opera. But each summer she always made it a point to come back to California to sing at the Hollywood Bowl "just to make sure the people of America didn't forget about me." She can rest assured. At 31, thanks to her Semiramide performance and an excellent new London recording, Presenting Marilyn Horne, she now ranks as the finest, most versatile young mezzo singing today...
...laryngitis. "So did I," says Lainie, but somehow the understudy who had been anonymously hoofing away in the chorus forgot to mention her illness, swallowed her fears, and bravely belted out the I'm the Greatest Star opener. "The few people who had started to leave heard me sing and came back," recalls Actress Kazan. At the close of each of her two performances, the audience roared its approval. And so a star was born? Not on your tinpanalley. To begin with, though Kazan's looks and style are remarkably similar, she is a lot of work away...