Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imported singers are so sure of their Wagner that they needed little rehearsing. But the San Franciscans who sing the smaller roles have been drilled tirelessly all autumn. More difficult still has been the task of training an orchestra which has never before played the Ring. Five players had to be brought on from Manhattan, four to play the special Wagner tuben, one the drums. To start the spadework a month ago, Conductor Artur Bodanzky sent two of his assistants from the Metropolitan Opera. For the past fortnight he has been on the job in person, rehearsing as much...
...director was Robert Lippert, a big, tense, jowly man who was once a boy soprano in the German Lutheran Church in Olean, N. Y. Robert Lippert well remembers when he was 13 and his father, the choirmaster, gave him a gold watch and said: "Son, you can't sing with us any longer." Though Son Lippert's voice changed, his interest in choral singing persisted. As he grew up, he organized choirs of his own, concentrated on the relationship of the voice to a boy's physical development. His conclusion was that voices do not necessarily "break...
Director Lippert chose Steubenville for his field because of the mixed racial background, which he maintains makes for the richest tone color. The boys who went to sing with him soon learned that they must submit to a strict routine which precluded all roughhousing, all carefree yelling, kept them at practice as much as seven hours a day. When they were ready for concerts Director Lippert bought them bright snappy costumes: for sacred songs, red silk cassocks, white silk cottas, ruching for their necks; for secular songs, long blue serge trousers, white satin blouses, red pleated sashes. They arrived...
This statement is manifestly untrue and detrimental to our career as we principal artists never have, do not now and never will sing for a price as low as $85 a week, nor do we sing more often than three times a week unless paid pro rata extra. This is a normal number of performances in any opera company regardless of seat price. Regarding the statement "The singing was sure but rarely exciting," we submit for your consideration our past records as shown by audience and press enthusiasm of such large cities as Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit...
...sung by its affable, grape-nosed star with grace, good humor and superb enthusiasm. No better indication of the civilized qualities of the picture could be given than its adroit conclusion. Tibbett, harassed by the strain of running an opera company whose "angel" has deserted it, comes out to sing the prolog to Pagliacci. He does so in grand style to ringing applause from both the audience in the picture and, usually, the audience at it. Then,, instead of going on into what looked like an inevitable anticlimax of more arias, prolonged congratulations and embraces by hero and heroine...