Word: singerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Botty Sanders, rising young folk singer, will entertain an open meeting of the Liberal Union tomorrow at 5 o'clock in Emerson D, HLU officers announced yesterday...
...born shortly before the outbreak of World War I in Frankfurt am Main. The place was accidental. My father was an opera singer and happened to have a contract with the Frankfurt Opera at the time. He was Hungarian; my mother was Viennese. My father died by accident four weeks before I was born. My mother lived henceforth with her two sisters, who were actresses and very beautiful...
...Maoris of New Zealand have produced great singing, but never a great singer. Their ancient love songs are still sung at tribal gatherings. Their traditional war dance (haka) is now used by New Zealand Rugby teams-and modern Maoris sometimes play it for laughs...
Last week came word from New Zealand that Maori musicality has at last produced a likely concert singer. Ini Te Wiata, 34, a logger with a resonant bass, has made such a hit with his countrymen (and with thousands of U.S. Marines in wartime New Zealand) that New Zealand's Labor government decided to do something for him. This week he will board ship for three years at London's Trinity College of Music, a $10,000 musical education at Government expense. New Zealanders, who suspect they have found a native Paul Robeson, do not intend...
...Productions, a committee of undergraduates engaged in promoting theatrical productions and celebrity appearances, announced yesterday that it will feature Josh White, "America's favorite ballad-singer," in a concert to be held at the Rindge Tech Auditorium Friday...