Word: singing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corporation replied that the song announced was an arbitrary selection and that Harvard must either sing it or withdraw. Under these circumstances and in view of the position which the Glee Club has consistently maintained with reference to the Intercollegiate contest since 1921, the Executive Committee felt that Harvard must withdraw from the contest. The matter was discussed most amicably with the Corporation. The decision had the approved of Dr. Davison and of the Graduate Advisory Committee of the Glee Club...
...each had held over his head by a master of ceremonies the low-crowned, wide, curled-brim red hat of the cardinal. Brother cardinals caught them by the elbows and kissed them on both cheeks; the queerly plump Sistine choir sang; His Holiness departed; all cardinals adjourned to sing a Te Deum; the happy audience departed...
...fortnight ago Mme. Luisa Tetrazzini canceled an engagement in Albert Hall, London. She could not sing, she explained, because she had taken a severe chill while vocalizing at the obsequies of the late Queen Alexandra. Last week she stood on the stage of Plymouth Hall and murmured in a rasping whisper that her cold had grown worse but that her protege, Luella Paikin, would substitute for her. Five minutes after she left the platform she broke down, summoned a physician, went...
Tenor Beniamino Gigli, who has refused all offers to sing over the radio, saying that it would take $50,000 to induce him to broadcast a concert, last week signed a contract to give the Christmas week concert of the Atwater Kent Co., Philadelphia, on Dec. 27. A curtain was held and the audience waited uneasily between the first and second acts of Herodiade at the Chicago Auditorium while call boys went to tell William Beck, baritone, that it was time to go on as Vitellius. Baritone Beck was not to be found in his dressing room. A messenger hurried...
...tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall, Boston. G. W. Woodworth 2G., who is conducting the Glee Club during the absence of Dr. A. T. Davison, who is taking his sabbatical leave of absence, will lead the club in tomorrow's concert. Mine, Sigrid Onegin, contralto, will sing the solo parts of Glee Club numbers...