Word: songful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cast did its best to put them at ease. That technical word aria, it was explained, is "nothing to be afraid of-it simply means 'song' in Italian." Ensemble -"that's when everybody sings together." By the time the audience had been let in on a few secrets of stage lighting, greasepaint, and how to put up the scenery, it was beginning to relax...
...time Conductor Del Mar came back, this time in full dress, to lead his six-piece orchestra into the introduction, everyone was ready to roar the first number, The Sweep's Song...
...sold into service as a chimney sweep, then rescued by the five children of the house where he is sweeping, moved swiftly along; and Benjy Britten's simple but satisfying score, written in eight days, did not slow it down. Most popular chorus: the Night Song, in which the audience is divided, for singing purposes, into owls, herons, turtledoves and chaffinches. After they had joined gleefully in the final Coaching Song, there was nothing left to do but applaud themselves and the opera's makers. Curly-haired Composer Britten and Librettist Eric Crozier (who also wrote the book...
...Buddy Clark (Columbia), Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer (Capitol). Mercury even got Frank and Lynn Loesser on wax. MGM, which peddles records as well as motion pictures, and originally had the inside track on Baby, was left at the post and lamely put out a record of the song from the film's soundtrack...
Married. Lala Andersen, 45, Swedish-born idol of Berlin cabarets and popularizer of Lili Marlene, the nostalgic song ; which haunted Montgomery's "Desert Rats" and Rommel's Afrika Korps (the British claimed the melody as victor's booty); and Arthur ("Thury") Beul, 34, Swiss tunesmith; she for the second time; in Zollikon, Switzerland...