Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixty members of the Harvard Glee Club will sing over a nationwide hook-up of the National Broadcasting Company at 6 o'clock on Friday, November 17. The concert will be one of a series of programs marking the occupancy of the new NBC studios in Radio City...
...Ankara and in every other Turkish city, town and hamlet Turks have been taught to sing during the past month a brand new "Tenth Anniversary March of the Republic" with which they greeted "Klim...
...Eliot House a double quartet has been privately formed to sing sixteenth seventeenth and eighteenth century music. The members meet weekly, usually on Fridays, for dinner in the House dining halls, then go to the tower room, and spend two hours part singing works of Byrd. Merley, Purcell, Bach. Palestries early polyphonic music and folksongs. It is possible that a concert may some time be given in the common room. but at present the group's only aim is to sing for its own amusement, at sight and without accompaniment whenever possible...
When Of Thee I Sing was produced, a Presidential election loomed. The show's political jibes were more sharply pointed with every edition of the newspapers. Let 'em Eat Cake concerns itself with a revolution and a dictatorship. Perhaps Messrs. Kaufman & Ryskind could have been more amusing had they chosen to square off at President Roosevelt and the NRA. Instead, their libretto wanders dreamily away into demented unreality...
...quavering voice, Alexander Throttlebottom wins the support of the Union League Club by letting the members believe that the revolution is directed against the British. The jokes about France's War debt, the mental incompetence of voters, the uselessness of the Vice-Presidency,* which made Of Thee I Sing so amusing, are all reworked for Let 'em Eat Cake. They fall quite flat. So do George Gershwin's antiphonal choral numbers which have grown longer and more tedious' since he first used them in Strike Up the Band (1927). Brother Ira Gershwin's flair...