Word: sung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week, this version of a 20-year-old War song was sung by 3,000 U. S. youths and maidens of about that age who congregated in the Capital to lobby for passage of the American Youth Act. Unimpressed by foreign crises, nationwide Recession or the advisability of attending to their homework, the "pilgrims" were in hope that a parade, attendance at Senate subcommittee hearings and their innocuous yodelings would persuade Congress to pass a bill of which the major intent is to provide part-time jobs for the youth of both sexes between...
...Columbian Exposition. Opponents wanted to replace her with John Greenleaf Whittier, then 85. Despite illness, an operation, a nervous attack, Harriet Monroe finished her ode in time, demanded and received $1,000 for it, had the satisfaction of hearing it read before an audience of 120,000, its chorus sung by 5,000 voices. Because the New York World published it without permission before the reading, she sued the paper, won $5,000 more. But her verse plays were unsuccessful, her travels-to Arizona, London, around the world-gave her interests but not inspiration. She did not find that until...
...certainly no one composer should be sung to the exclusion of other writers whose works are of equal merit. Last year, with the entire "Ring" cycle and several individual Wagnerian operas all crowded into ten days, there was a complete lack of balance in the musical fare. That is why Verdi's "Otello," Mozart's "Don Giovanni," and Richard Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier" are such welcome additions to the 1938 Boston list...
...title part will be sung by Rose Pauly, famous interpreter of Strauss roles, both in central Europe and at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Mino Pauly's "Elektra" has been outstanding in the current New York operatic season...
Living Conditions. "I was never to so many operas and plays in my life! I spent most of my time in Russia in one of the nicest hotels I've ever been in. I heard Madame Butterfly sung in Russian -in the finest presentation I have ever seen. . . . Russia today is safe, secure: there is no worry there, no fear. I didn't go hungry. I ate almost better than I ever have! I don't speak Russian. The people really have free speech. If they wanted to, the Russian people could get rid of their present...