Word: singed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...singlehearted ferocity that awed even her enemies. Conductor Tullio Serafin, her indispensable mentor in the crucial early days, was tossed aside temporarily-for daring to record La Traviata with another soprano. Enraged at the Callas ego, La Scala Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano declared, "I'm never going to sing opera with her again." Later he changed his mind about Callas, but then so did a lot of people...
...charming, ruthless, overwhelmingly talented, capable of canceling a performance halfway through (as she did once in Rome) even with a King in the audience. In her long face a kind of gypsy coarseness struggled with and failed to dominate a classic beauty. She could act with her voice and sing with her body, like a great tragedienne. Especially in her later years, that voice could be edgy and even ugly. But that did not matter...
...losing with them, perhaps, some of the richness of her voice. Shortly after World War II, when she was on the verge of fame as a singer in Verona and Venice and finally Milan, she weighed so much (more than 200 Ibs. at one point) that she refused to sing Madama Butterfly simply because she felt she looked ridiculous for the part...
...tell you all to go see Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, with Don Rickles yet, at the Music Hall, through October 1. She's gotta be kidding. This is a rock column, y'know...Hey, but seriously, kids, if Steve and Eydie live up to their promise, and sing to the accompaniment of a punk-rock band, it should be quite an evening. Rickles--hey! Ain't he the funniest thing since orthopedic shoes, yeah you, the lady and I use the term loosely in the front row. Ha Ha. Hey--GO FOR IT. Tickets only cost 10 bucks...
WHEN JESSICA MITFORD was a young teenager in London, her governess used to drag her to Hyde Park on Sundays. She would often wander over to where the soap-box orators held forth. One day, she heard someone sing the Internationale, and misunderstood the words. Instead of "the final conflict," Mitford thought the song referred to the class struggle as "the fine old conflict...