Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Only for ten minutes in the third period did the Lions roar at all, and then they got only one touchdown. In the last quarter, Army all but pushed them off the field, scored twice more to finish the game in front, 35 to 6. His sad song over, Coach Blaik was already whistling up a new tune for this week's march into Michigan...
...wigged Donna Elvira, Schwarzkopf first denounced her seducer with flashing temper, then melted into moving sorrow as she realized what sort of fellow the don was. With sure technique, she hushed her eager admirers in the audience until she finished her big Act II aria. As she ended the song, she cupped her hands before her in supplication and got her reward: thunderous applause and cheers during four curtain calls...
...pleasure to hear a concert made up of complete song cycles, rather than the usual recital of individual isolated songs. most familiar of the cycles presented was Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte. While Gartside's musicianship and sense of phrasing were apparent, his voice did not quite have the richness required for these romantic songs. He was more successful with Le Bestiaire, Poulenc's witty setting of the Apollianaire verses. Gartside sang these with elan and elegance, and wonderfully rendered the sardonic, bittersweet spirit of the music...
...real treat of the evening was a chance to hear two seldom performed and magnificent song cycles, Faurc's L'Horizon Chimerique and Vaughan Williams' On Wenlock Edge. Gartside showed his ability in mezza-voce in the third of the Faurc songs, Diane, which was chillingly beautiful...
...gave 90 minutes to a sentimentally tinted reprise of Judy Garland's famed 1951 song-and-dance act at the Palace. Judy performed with all the stridently throaty nostalgia of a starlet just picked to play the lead in some future filming of The Judy Garland Story, and if the stage seemed overly empty when Judy was making her changes, her legs at least -when they reappeared-proved more than adequate to any candidate's platform...