Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know. His critical (not commercial, by any means) success has to be attributed to his imagination, coupled with an authentic mild musical genius -- he is an excellent arranger and composer, even if he has no voice to speak of. I would go to see him just to hear him sing, "Cleveland, city of magic/Cleveland, city of Light." That's just sick...
...Helen Traubel. Despite his rigorous schedule, Melchior never canceled a performance, something of a landmark for temperamental opera stars. Once while he was in Götterdämmerung he developed a swollen polyp that choked him; he found that by holding his head to one side he could sing-and sing he did for three hours...
...said, 'In the opera, there is an old lord who is elegant, arrogant and distinguished. I think you are just right for the part.' " Mused Bing: "The only other time, I appeared onstage were to announce in front of the curtain that Mr. [Franco] Corelli would not sing tonight. And I did that often enough...
...move the play along so much as they suspended moments in time and savored them, following the practice of tunesmiths in the era nostalgically evoked by the show: the 1920s and '30s. Night Music is devoted predominantly to what Sondheim calls the "inner monologue song," in which characters sing of their deepest thoughts, but almost never to each other...
Like many Japanese executives, the heads of Mitsubishi like to consider their workers one big happy family. The combine's 260,000 employees are scattered among 27 member firms that make everything from diodes to diapers, but they can sing the company song, vacation at company resorts and enroll in Mitsubishi-sponsored haiku-writing and flower-arranging courses. Yet for years Mitsubishi executives have stewed over an insult to the ideal of togetherness: some 80,000 Mitsubishi workers are unmarried...