Word: songful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sweet & Sour Polka. In Peking, Radio Peking announced a new song hit in Red China: The Community Dining Hall Is Too Good to Tell...
...Rodgers and Hammerstein will be able to pay the fuel bill this winter, with Flower Drum Song, sold out for all 4½ weeks of its Boston tryout. Advance sale in New York a month before the Broadway opening: a reported $1,000,000 plus...
...Kiefer on the front, on the back helpfully lifts the disguise: the author is a committee, Harry Middleton and Warren Kiefer, onetime P.R. men for the drug firm Chas. Pfizer & Co. Writing at double strength, they achieve one of the most moving scenes of nobility in defeat since The Song of Roland. Pressagent Joe Logan has corrupted a war hero and seduced his fiancee while boosting a dangerous new tranquilizer; he is about to ditch his boss as a Senate committee begins to ask unpleasant questions. But the sight of his employer cruelly beset by Senators is too much. Logan...
...that a singer has it under perfect vocal control-and Tebaldi is believed by her fans to have her operas in her throat as has no other singer of her generation. She is a great piano singer, capable of purling out almost endless pianissimos of varying shades. Her Willow Song and Ave Maria from Otello are wonderfully pure yet warm-not crystals, but moonstones or pinkish opals. In Andrea Chenier, when the two lovers hail the dawn and go to the guillotine together, she is as radiant and fresh as the rising sun itself...
...think for a moment the other works of art did. Surrealists are thought of as fantastic and frivolous. Without departing from the surrealist style, Miró had produced something on a monumental scale." Georges Salles was ecstatic, declared: "Against the monotone of cement and travertine, Miró gives the song of color. It is not a painting against a wall; it is the wall itself that sings...