Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teaches at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, suggested a 20-year-old, plump, black-haired pupil of his, who so far had sung only in church choirs. At the tryout, Anne sang the one bit of Bohème she knew: the famous second-act waltz song...
...tributes to do justice to a gangster's funeral. But tall, ample Lotte Lehmann, one of the greatest sopranos of her fading day, making her 18th annual appearance at Manhattan's Town Hall, still nervously clutched a handkerchief as she sang Schubert's Müllerin song cycle. Said she, afterwards: "The first concert in New York is always difficult. The heart goes like that! It is like having again a difficult examination...
After attending a service at the posh, progressive Eglinton Avenue United Church, a United Church minister in Toronto was invited to stay for the young people's meeting. When he went upstairs, he found the young people (with perhaps 100 adults present) bellowing a song, to the strains of I'm Nobody's Sweetheart...
...editorialized the February number of the Unitarian Christian Register. And many a protesting Protestant agreed. Wincing under the quadruple impact of Going My Way, The Song of Bernadette, The Keys of the Kingdom and The Bells of St. Mary's he wondered why Hollywood should be so long on Catholic heroes, wondered also what might be done about...
...program opened with the dreamy old song, Won't You Wait Till the Cows Come Home, accented by the tinkle of a cowbell and the recorded moo of a Jersey heifer. It closed with a gooey, sentimental ballad called Contented, sung by a weepy-voiced tenor ("I'm on heaven's own doorstep, so contented with you"). Between the moo and the mush, the Carnation Milk Co. poured out a half hour of semi-classical music as thick and sweet as its product. To keep its Contented Hour flowing smoothly, Carnation also hired such big names...