Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most ardent even supposing that she refused contracts solely out of righteous indignation for not having been appreciated earlier. Recently she's become pretty candid about what was actually in those contracts: insultingly poor roles, old productions, or performance dates that Bing knew conflicted with her commitments to sing elsewhere--in one instance, her debut at Covent Garden...
Perhaps because he lacks the absolute security of a star like Sills, he is more temperamental and serious in rehearsal than she is. He has very definite ideas about how he wants to sing his lines and he's willing to fight for them. After rehearsing the third act-he stormed off stage, saying heatedly to Sills, "It's musically completely wrong for me. Why should I sing that way? It's ridiculous." He was tense in the dressing room as he explained. "A tempo is not right, which makes it uncomfortable. We'll have to iron it out because...
Diaz stresses his belief that the Met's hiring practices are based firmly on talent, and he has reason to be pleased with his career there. In addition to opening the season next year in Siege, he will sing the title role in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in November. "I can now say yes or no to anything they want me to do. I don't have to take whatever they dish out. But I think that all of those problems have been ironed out very naturally and very cordially." Problems? Who said anything about problems...
Phnom-Penh, once one of Indochina's most elegant cities, is seized by anxiety and foreboding. Its population of 500,000 has been swollen to 2 million by refugees. Despite the ever present danger from random Khmer Rouge rocketing, children still sing in the streets in the early evening and decorations are going up for the Cambodian New Year, April 13. But after the 9 p.m. curfew, the only sound is the chatter of small-arms fire punctuated by the thump of rockets and howitzer shells. By day, the city is ever more pathetic and dangerous. There are serious...
...sing a song of grace...