Word: sung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restlessness and her head with innocent resolution, keeps her procrastinating over escape until her father's mania for feeding birds is quite pronounced, until she has a friend and perhaps lover in the grocer's son, until one more village Easter passes and the first nightingale has sung. Then go she does, Anne Dunnock of Dry Coulter, to equivocal Paris where the grocer's son, an artist, turns out to be no lover at all but her means of meeting one, whom she marries and by whom all her perplexed misgivings about being lost in life...
...more than a score of others who complete the total roster of the clubs. The same program as that which brought applause from eight audiences last week will be presented tonight. The Banjo Club will play three numbers, and the Mandolin Club four. Eight songs are listed to be sung by the Vocal Club, although on the Christmas trip a medley of Yale, Princeton, and Harvard football songs was added to the regular program...
Standing firmly, foursquare, on the theory that English is the artistic medium for opera in the U. S. the Chicago Opera Company presented earlier this season Charles Wakefield Cadman's Witch of Salem, a U. S. opera sung in English (TIME, Dec. 20). Last week the Company went even further, presented a German opera specially translated into English for its U. S. premiere: Tiefland, the tale of a villainous rich landowner in the Pyrenees, who has an unwilling young mistress. In the grand manner, she is rescued by a simple shepherd...
...were unanimous in their praise of score and singers. Though the music insists upon an old Puritan hymn, it has no particular American characteristics, being essentially just melodious, good, pleasant music. The love duet of the first act is probably the best example of its kind in American Opera. Sung in English, the words were intelligibly projected by the singers; Charles Hackett, particularly, excelled in clarity of diction...
...Davison's plan is that all the Freshmen should gather together and sing in a body. The glee club director believes that there are many college songs, which they are good are not sung by the students. He states that the singing of these songs, and other good musical pieces, will both be interesting, and open a new field for the Freshmen. He also pointed out that these combined meetings of the Freshmen would be the ideal place to teach the new college songs...