Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Boris, his supreme triumph, only a few years were left to Musorgsky. Sinking toward dissolution, he still continued to .create music-the unfinished opera Khovanshchina, many songs, e.g., The Song of the Flea, Songs and Dances of Death. Then, after a last desperate effort to make money by touring Russia as accompanist for a singer, he collapsed. Finally put in a hospital early in 1881, he lived only long enough for Artist Ilya Repin to finish his famous drunkard's-nose portrait...
...questions came fast. Where was his home town? He did not seem to understand. Where was he born? That was easier: "In Kuibyshev, on the Volga River." "We know all about the Volga," a brassy chap informed him. "We have a song called The Volga Boatman" "Very nice song," observed the ambassador...
Introducing the acts, running down the actors and confiding in the audience, radio-bred Hank Ladd chatters on & on in easy style and with admirable timing. Very often it takes all his personality to get away with his persiflage. But on he goes again, and even bursts into a song about how he left his girl on one-but which one?-of the Thousand Islands...
Fred Waring (Mon. 10:30 p.m., NBC). Two Waring favorites: The Song of Christmas, and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas...
Included in the program are three preludes, followed by The Holly and the Ivy, Waissail Song, Adeste Fideles and others...