Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troublesome skit, a song called The Left Honourable, includes the verse...
...song recital was like a new Schiaparelli showing. The people who filled Manhattan's Carnegie Chamber Hall were largely buyers of music: singers, teachers and publishers. On stage, like a mannequin modeling a new plunging neckline, brown-haired, willowy Janet Fairbank paraded the latest creations in art songs. Tucked away in the corners of the auditorium were young composers, some of whose musical stitches and designs were being shown off for the first time in public...
Most singers consider the program foolhardy that has more than two songs by living composers-but not 44-year-old Janet Fairbank. In eight New York concerts she has given more than 100 songs by some two dozen composers their first performance. She gets pieces still in manuscript, spends all summer studying them with an accompanist. ("You have to practice them until it seems as easy as Schubert.") A year ago every song Janet Fairbank sang was purchased by publishers the morning after the recital. This year the publishers didn't wait. They bought almost her entire program before...
...Stunt. After studying in Germany, she made her concert debut in Chicago, then sang with the San Carlo and Chicago Opera companies. In 1943 she sang a New York recital of American songs by Virgil Thomson, Paul Bowles, John Cage and others. Says Janet Fairbank: "People thought it was going to be a nut stunt. When I started, the American songs that were sung were mostly the 'I Love Life' type. I think I made people realize that there were good American songs. I always try to stay away from hackneyed things. Unless you are a Lotte Lehmann...
...Song of the South. Walt Disney's Technicolored Uncle Remus : a mixture of top-notch cartooning and so-so live action (TIME...