Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, so differs the beauteous yellow parlor canary from that less spectacular-looking musical technician, the Glucke Roller Canary. Ordinary house canaries just sing. Rollers roll. They trill and pipe some twelve identifiably different kinds of music. For 400 years eager teachers have bred away their natural song, using organ music to teach them Gluckes and Rolls, using running water to teach them the elegant Deep Bubbling Water Tour. Modern breeders lef young birds learn by listening to older champions. Some trainers have tried phonograph records, but not successfully. The birds learn and include in their song...
...building echoed deafeningly with rifle fire, pistol shots and grenade explosions. It needed some cautious maneuvering to recognize what corner not to go around. . . . The Rebels were on the floor below us, firing upward, while Loyalists shot down or dropped hand grenades. . . . Once a song floated upward amazingly from that doomed place below. A soldier next to me heard it just as he was about to draw the pin of a grenade. 'They're singing!' he said in a stupefied tone...
Build us a fortress pledged to song...
...belaboring, pretty, pouting Simone Simon surprises everybody by singing pleasingly in a muted, engagingly unprofessional soprano. As a Bernie find whom Winchell, sight unseen, has slurred in a radio broadcast, she changes her name to Yvette Yvette, warms up on the less fluty flights of Lakme's Bell Song, proceeds through Gordon & Revel's Sweet Someone and a repertory that finally forces Winchell to eat his unsavory words...
...Winchell-Ben Bernie musical to appear, and as entertainment is superior to "Wake up and Live," although the music--"Sweet Someone," "I Wanna Be in Winchell's Column," "Darling, Jo Vous Aime Beaucoup," and others--may not have the appeal of "Never in a Million Years," and the title song of the previous production...