Word: singing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dave Hammond opens the show with a repertoire of show tunes. This could be grim, but Hammond is from Dudley House and knows where it's at when it comes to Broadway. He isn't about to sing of hills alive with the sound of music. Rather, he launches into some of the great obscure and near-obscure songs of our time...
...cover. "We don't find it at all offensive, so we must stand by it," says Mick Jagger. "If we allow them to dictate to us what we can and cannot do in the way of packaging, next they are going to try to tell us what to sing." Last week the argument was in the hands of the lawyers for both sides...
...band began playing God Bless America, in a slow and sentimental tempo, led by a sweet trumpet. Now everybody sing, said the aide, and the whole thing swelled up and that funny feeling stirred in people's stomachs...
What Verrett lacked was only what most newcomers lack at their debuts-the kind of relaxed spontaneity that familiarity with an opera house and a particular production can bring. The Jean-Louis Barrault staging required her to sing the Habanera, for example, half way up a set of tall steps at stage rear, where the orchestra was hard to hear...
...three years running-1962, 1963, 1964-the tall, shapely mezzo sang powerful Carmens in Spoleto, Moscow and at the New York City Opera. But it was the Met that Verrett was aiming for. She declined Rudolf Bing's offer to sing several minor Wagner and Verdi roles. At length, Bing came through with the role she craved...