Word: songful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inaugurated by Conductor Leopold Damrosch, not a word of anything but German was heard in the house. Wagner was performed in thunderous repetition, and the greatest soprano of the period, Lilli Lehmann, sang Carmen in German in her Met debut. But during the Met's "Golden Age of Song," at the turn of the century, Jean and Edouard de Reszke, Emma Eames, Lillian Nordica, Nellie Melba, et al. educated their audiences to hear Italian and French operas sung in their original languages. Still, educated or not, Guest Star Adelina Patti could stop the opera by singing Home, Sweet Home...
...song leader of the cheering section," Reed wrote at the age of 29, "I had the supreme blissful sensation of swaying 2000 voices in great crashing choruses during the big football games...
...Loot Song. In Sydney, Australia, police, after finding a traffic summons with his name and address on it inside a burglarized garage, nabbed Brian William Quinn, 22, who pleaded guilty to the robbery, explained: "I must have dropped the summons when I took out my handkerchief to wipe off my fingerprints...
...stomped on tradition by opening the New York Philharmonic's first Thursday "preview" concerts with a clutch of jokes and song snatches in a quavering baritone (TIME, Oct. 13), stomped again at the season's second Thursday. On stage at Carnegie Hall trooped the symphony's 107 members, garbed not in the familiar spikey ties and rumpled tails, but in a Bernstein brainstorm: work clothes of off black trousers and matching tropical jackets with bandmasters' collars and white cuff piping, based vaguely on the rehearsal coats of old-line European conductors. Reaction: mixed, so far. Murmured...
...time when Leroy Anderson took over the conductorship of the Band, which was approximately 1930, he began to compose original arrangements, almost always in medley form, in order to give the band something more unique to play than the regulation marches and the rather stolid, staightforward settings of college songs which had been largely the fare of college bands up to that time. One of his greatest successes, of course, was "Wintergreen for President" which he based on the famous song from Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing" which was published about 1930 or 31. Where the original version used...