Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everything she accomplished was the result of grueling work. To learn English and to get some schooling, her father bound her out to a Minneapolis family. Great was the sensation when in later years the head of that household refused to pay for a ticket to hear a person sing who had been a "servant" in his family. In Minneapolis Fremstad gave her first formal concert, earned enough to go to Manhattan where the late Frederick Bristol gave her lessons in return for which she played the accompaniments for all his other pupils. As a soloist at St. Patrick...
...thus starting its phenomenal popularity. As to the tune's creation, Riley said that one night a girl came into the Onyx Club. "She's pretty high," he recalled. "She says, 'Is that instrument hard to play?' I say, 'Why no. You just sing it. You blow in here and it comes out there...
...afternoon exercises the club will sing with a group from the Graduate Schools, and in the evening they will join the Boston Symphony Orchestra in singing portions of Bach's B Minor Mass under the direction of Dr. Serge Koussevitsky at Symphony Hall...
...That Philadelphia neighborhood represented home to Marian Anderson. When she was a child her father conducted a small coal & ice business nearby. Her mother went out to do white folks' housework. Marian's big day of the week was Sunday when, all stiffly starched, she went to sing at the Union Baptist Church. At 8 she was billed as "The Baby Contralto," sang Sing Me to Sleep with her dark, buxom aunt. The Negro parson was Marian Anderson's first critic. Said he: "It is amazing that so much voice can come from such a very small...
...stuck a press badge in his hat, pretended to be snapping Musicomedy Star Ethel (You're the Top) Merman (see cut). Asked in Manhattan for a statement on the state of the world, he declared: Gentlemen, in his next picture Charlie Chaplin will not talk but he will sing...