Word: sings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...haunted by the child king he has murdered, as frightened of his own evil as of the false pretender who is coming through the winter forests to kill him. At last he dies, and in dying Boris Godunov demands an all-but-impossible mystic triumph of the bassos who sing his tragic role: his final prayer must be torn from a soul already lost, from lips already dead. Yet in the last few years, no role in all grand opera has grown so rich in men who sing it superbly...
They are folk singers, it seems, and there are undeniably ten of them-the sporty, clean New Christy Minstrels. By the traditions of their trade, ten folk singers are nine too many, and when they all sing out together at their full-throated best, ten are ten too many. But in less than a year, they have become the surest thing in polyunsaturated folk music since the Kingston Trio...
Hewed to Taste. Sparks's ambitions make him a traitor to the serious seekers of the ethnic. But Sparks makes no apologies. "I can sing just as ethnically as they can," he says, "and so can all of us. But we hew to the public taste because the public pays our salaries...
Died. Frederick Charles Wood, 51, cocky confessed killer of five who rebuffed all efforts to win him a stay of execution, telling everyone "I really want to ride the lightning"; in the electric chair at Sing Sing. Just before the straps were fastened he said: "Gents, this is an educational project. You are about to witness the damaging effect electricity has on Wood...
...Fillo, even with a fever and a stuffy nose, was her usual wonderful self. She can sing anything from the bouncy (A Little Jazz Bird) to the wistful (Something Cool) with real style...