Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be bored with the routines and blackouts, since what energy they develop comes in part from the question, "What do they do next?" At the end of Serpent, for example, comes a surprise ending (which I will not reveal because it does not take place). As the actors sing, "We were sailing along, on moonlight bay," they drift out into the now ever-so-slightly per-spiring audience and simply sit down with them and fade away...
Before deciding that he wanted to sing opera, Milnes had ambitions to be a doctor. His father was a Methodist minister, his mother the musical director of the local Congregational church. As a boy, Sherrill milked cows and baled hay on the family farm, but also found time to study voice, violin, piano, viola and tuba. Later he took a pre-med course at Iowa's Drake University, where voice teachers urged him to take up singing as a full-time career. Commercials beefed up his cash balance while he sang with Boris Goldovsky's Opera Company...
...Forte dei Marmi near the famous Carrara marble quarries. He sometimes spends whole days tramping over the quarries to find the right piece of stone. "I like the actual activity of carving. With a hammer and chisel in hand, my worries go, and I begin to whistle and sing without knowing...
...unmajestic, uninercurial, and rather bland, tired, and timid. There was petulance instead of the passionate anger of a moody, selfish, regal, lover-queen. Miss Yakutis must avail herself, as I know she can, of a range of tones and rhythms, and soar and admonish and implore and pout and sing her way to complexity. The soldiers are unremittingly declamatory, laboring to render each line as massively as possible. They don't speak to each other, but keep trying to lurch into Shakespeare's execrable Titus Andronicus oratory. Too many speeches are self-contained. The wonderful music of speech...
...song that they sing of their home...