Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swing to Bridges. In Washington, hardly anyone thought that Taft would oppose confirmation of Durkin, and no one thought that the Senate would refuse to confirm him.* The Ohio Senator's colleagues in Congress failed to provide any choral background for his solo. Vermont's Senator George D. Aiken, who will rank next to Chairman Taft on the Labor Committee, thought it was "wise to recognize organized labor in the Cabinet." Several Taft-minded Senators, e.g., Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel, swung behind New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, rather than Taft, for Majority Leader...
...kilt and entertained his friends by singing Getting to Know You from The King and I. Among the enthusiastic guests: onetime Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, and Count Valdemar of Rosenberg, the King of Denmark's cousin (who encored the Duke's song with an exotic solo dance...
...Philadelphia last week, famed Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, 63, came out of a three-year retirement to solo with the Philadelphia Orchestra. His reason: he wanted to play the world premiere of Gian-Carlo (The Consul) Menotti's Violin Concerto in A Minor...
...chorus sang A Lyke-Wake Dirge before, between and after the solos. It was slow music, in close harmony and mildly dissonant, not a dirge of despair but rather "contemplative," as one listener put it. The soprano solo, The Maidens Came, was sparse, austere, reminded some in spirit of Italian primitive painting of an even earlier era than Stravinsky's models. The tenor solo, Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, was a singer's nightmare of half tones and difficult intervals. Most everybody was relieved when the duet, Westron Winde, came breezing in with a cheerfully dissonant allegro...
...stand or sit in well-drilled movement sections at crucial moments. Baritone Mack Harrell, as Columbus, stood beside the conductor, and Basso Norman Scott, as Columbus' inner nature and conscience, stood slightly behind him. Soprano Dorothy Dow, as Queen Isabella, entered through the orchestra whenever she had a solo. Met Baritone John Brownlee, as the Narrator, stood on a high platform at the left, and various Officers, Creditors and Wise Men sang from steps on the right...