Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this tune an Englishman and an American may sing, both correctly, as follows...
...sing with heart and voice...
...Since they are essentially pictures and must depend largely for their success on movement and pantomime, one can ordinarily understand what is going on even though the spoken words are unintelligible. Music, of course, is a universal language and a dictionary need not be thumbed when the hero is singing a love song. The admission prices, moreover, are usually so modest that you can afford to take a chance on being delighted or bored. But, after all, what Boston schoolgirl would be deterred by such practical considerations when there is a chance to hear Maurice Chevaller sing in his native...
...draw nor is it overskillful. The singers act only when they feel their voices going back on them. This deficiency is startlingly revealed by closeups; there are times when the singers have the air of comics burlesquing grand opera stars. Their voices are not bad but they sing as loud as they can all the time and the recording makes the results even worse. The orchestra utters metallic clickings, moans sepulchrally in the lower register, makes the upper notes shrill and hollow...
People everywhere have heard Nellie Melba sing "Home Sweet Home," "Comin' Thro' the Rye," Tosti's "Goodbye." Opera crowds have seen her as Mimi in La Bohème, Violetta in La Traviata, Marguerite in Faust, Gilda in Rigoletto, Lucia, Juliette. The pure and springlike quality of her voice established her as Patti's greatest successor. It lasted her well through middle age because she used it so intelligently, won her triumphs for 40 years. Melba's life was as glamorous as the prima donna of fiction. She made her American debut at the Metropolitan in 1893 five days after famed...