Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Earl sat down and the audience rose to sing an old Scotch song: "Will Ye No' Come Back Again?" The first verse rose clear and lilting, but at the refrain Lord Oxford and Asquith was seen to be in tears. Soon he was weeping heavily. He managed to say brokenly: "I thank you . . . I thank you from the bottom of my heart...
...broadest sense Marie of Roumania is a romancist. She is off center (How many miles is it to Bucharest?), she is fickle, and she is expressive of her own views, virtues, and vertigoes. Jean J. Rousseau would adore her as he left for the zoo; Gauter would sing of her as he polished his waistcoat buttons; Plato would not believe she existed; and Aristotle would give up his chair of comparative literature. Horace might add that in the consulship of Marcellus women did'nt make quite such a disturbance. Yes, this lady from the Balkans is romantic to the core...
...piano with its hammers patched with string and sealing wax, but still a piano. . . . Sh might have gone back to Dresden where she first sang in opera, to Hamburg, where Herr Heink had died and left her alone with five small children, to scrub and cook, to sing for five dollars a performance. Yes, Hamburg had its memories, but then so had Vienna and Berlin and Bayreuth. So had cities all over...
...when she came to the Metropolitan Opera to sing for $75 a week. More children, Herr Schumann's, were added to Herr Heink's* string. At the Metropolitan she was at home, but there were the children. . . . She went into musical comedy. They lifted their hands in horror at the Metropolitan but they took her back when she was ready to come because no one else could sing Wagner as she could. She left the Metropolitan again, went touring the country in concert, into towns much smaller than Stevens Point, into army camps, schools, hospitals, East, North, South...
...Vocal Club will sing old college songs, a few light classical pieces, and other popular melodies. Its purpose is to each the fundamentals of group singing and keep active the traditional college songs. The Vocal Unit will not take part in any combined concerts but will perform at all local appearances of the Instrumental Clubs...