Word: sings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of the party simply cannot take Carter at face value. Show-biz analogies are reached for to define him. His frequent references to love remind derisive critics of that 1930s musical Of Thee I Sing, in which Presidential Candidate Wintergreen croons that "love is sweeping the country." To others, Carter summons the image of the plastic politician in the film Nashville who broadcasts but never appears onscreen. Yet to many others, he is a believable leader with eclectic policies. Carter welcomes the ordeal of the primaries because he knows he must prove himself. "I want to be tested...
...expediently announced by the town crier. Further, Floyd seems to have forgotten that an opera audience surely wants to believe in the music at least as much as the story on stage. Floyd is ambivalent about his uses of music. He gives Doll a sweet ditty to sing as she makes dolls for two neighbors' children, but in a mad scene she is totally silent. Can one imagine Strauss or Donizetti abdicating their composers' rights at a moment like that...
...Boston rally, which attracted about 500 listeners despite occasional sprinkles of rain, was a last-ditch effort to disseminate leaflets, pass the hat, and sing "This Land is Your Land"--Harris's "theme song...
Monk's medium isn't space, the choreographer's domain; it's time, the concern of the composer. She could sing before she could speak and read music before reading books. "Music is my first language," she says. Coming from a family of musicians, she nevertheless resisted the family tradition and turned to dance...
Lessard acknowledged yesterday that he likes his employees to be "outgoing." "I might ask them to jump on a table and sing," he said, "or to carry a sandwich board to Harvard Square and back." If employees refuse, Lessard gives them or cuts their hours way back...