Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Praise ye the Lord," sang the chorus of white & Negro children. The Lord may have heard, but the audience was busy with other praiseworthy subjects. The hum of heterogeneous good will that rose from UNESCO's well-wishers almost drowned out the song. The music teacher who had rehearsed the chorus for weeks was so angry the orchid almost popped off her black evening dress; good will created its own exasperating tensions...
...same year. McCormack won the gold medal at the National Irish Music Festival (Feis Ceoil) in 1902. Joyce, almost set to win it in 1904, refused to sing from sight a song he didn't know, stalked off the platform. His emotionally charged speaking voice can be heard in a recording (retailing at $11 a disc) of "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake...
...from Maestro Karl Krueger, her conductor and friend, Margaret began. She tackled the reasonably simple Cielito Lindo with power and control, sang the tricky aria, Charmant Oiseau, with swooping zest (and a few flat notes), and coasted home with the well-worn Last Rose of Summer, a song her father had requested...
...centuries, they have been used as entertainers in flea circuses. In Goethe's Faust, Mephistopheles sings of "a king, A lovely queen had he-But dearer far than queen or son. He loved a big black flea. . . ." Upon this item Russian Composer Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky based his Song of the Flea...
...saxophone quartet from the Garde Rápublicaine, reinforced by a violin and a harp, played throughout the meal (sometimes with so much gusto that an attendant had to quiet them down). The consomme was accompanied by some airily impressionistic Debussy, the timbale by a new composition entitled Song of the Lost Spring. Just then, the springy weather outside gave way to a violent snowstorm, which remained over Paris until Marshall's departure for Berlin next...