Word: sung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Everything there was German: officials, teachers, clergy, postmen and railwaymen. Nothing but German was spoken there any longer, and songs were sung which, if they were sung in Rome, would lead to immediate arrest...
...Schumann-Heink has sung before the public for 49 years...
...grim dour men, all black-coated, all full-throated, 1,200 of them, gave a concert one evening last week in Manhattan. They represented 25 male choruses brought together by the Associated Glee Clubs of America* for a third annual concert. Two years ago 540 of them had sung together at Carnegie Hall; found Carnegie Hall too small for glee club enthusiasts. Last year 856 of them had sung at the Metropolitan Opera House; found it too small. Last week they met at the 71st Regiment Armory, 11,000 capacity; found it a happier choice...
...Phillips-Exeter Academy (Exeter, N. H.) was founded in 1781 by John, brother of Samuel Phillips, upon seeing the success of the latter's school at Andover, Mass. Andover's first headmaster was Eliphalet Pearson, known as "Elephant," sung as Great Eliphalet (I can see him now), Big name, big frame, big voice and beetling brow...
...Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, Lawrence Tibbett, young U. S. baritone who won fame overnight last year in a performance of Falstaff, succeeded Titta Ruffo as Neri in La Cena delle Beffe, again took high honors. Sophisticates who had gone expecting to hear Giordano's glittering, theatrical music sung by beautiful voices, to see unauthentic, bombastic acting, stayed after the performance to call "Tibbett! Tibbett!" and went home comparing favorably his performance with that of Lionel Barrymore in Benelli's stage version of The Jest...