Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compared to the energetic work of the Harvard singers, the Princeton Glee Club made a rather poor showing. Mr. Weinrich has trained his singers inadequately in the fundamentals of choral style, and one shudders to think that the insipid solo group in Mendelssohn's Hunting Song represents the best voices at his disposal. In Schubert's Komm Heilger Geist the tenors used falsetto indiscriminately to reach notes beyond their range. Mr. Weinrich continued with Four Peasant Songs by Stravinsky, a work which has replaced Bullfrog on the Bank as a staple of Ivy League glee clubs. In comparison with...
What was going on would do La Rosa no harm in his new solo career. His talent agency contract guarantees him at least $100,000 during the next year (with Godfrey last year, he made an estimated $35,000). Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town television show snapped him up at $3,000 a guest performance. Mamie Eisenhower watched him rehearse for a role in Washington's Navy Relief Ball, afterward shook his hand, repeating again and again, "Isn't he cute? Isn't he cute...
...concert by the Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet yesterday afternoon inaugurated the Pierian Sodality's 1953-54 Sunday Concert Series. The Quintet is composed of members of the Philadelphia Orchestra; four of them are the solo players in their respective sections. This ensemble represents a tradition which is one of the most significant and unique features of the contemporary musical scene. Perhaps the central innovation of the modern virtuoso orchestra is the phenomenally increased importance of the woodwinds. Certain mechanical improvements in some of the woodwinds during the past century have helped to bring about this movement; more important, the new spectrum...
Comedy in Music is simply Victor Borge, and his one-man show is Broadway's best show so far this season. To a Broadway glutted with solo flights-half of them spills to boot-Borge is almost able to demonstrate that, in terms of entertainers, two's a crowd and even a stooge is a superfluity. Long a success in nightclubs and TV, he fits perfectly into the theater. No more a routine comic than a straight pianist, he has the superb showmanship that can hold audiences by doing anything-or nothing...
Later, at a solo press conference, he was more expansive. Waving his left hand, which flashed with a diamond bracelet containing 812 diamonds, he announced that before the end of the 20th century, "God is going to stop death." Across the room his Philadelphia sponsor, Politico Hobson R. Reynolds, who owns a cemetery and has an interest in a family undertaking business, sat fascinated. "Yes," the Prophet went on, "I aim to put undertakers, gravediggers and casket factories out of business...