Word: sung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Excelsior served as a handout in 1877. The original Spotless Town jingles were submitted to Morgan's in 1899 by a Cornell undergraduate named Eraser, later a partner in the advertising agency of Blackman & Co. Given away by the million in grocery stores, these and later lyrics were sung by vaudeville troupes, dramatized for church and school entertainments, clinched Morgan's thesis on "How to Become Great" in the company's Witchcraft magazine in 1904: "Diligence, Perseverance, and Genius May Be of Some Help, but it is Ingenious Advertising that Tells in the Long...
...Wagner's Die Meistersinger, the Cincinnati Symphony ended its first season's attempt at presenting grand opera as a part of its regular schedule. Four Wagner operas had been given in all. Singers had been imported for principal roles. A group of local choristers had gladly sung for nothing. In Die Meistersinger last week the Eva was one of the comeliest young women who has ever made an operatic debut. She was Inez Gorman...
...other side holds that listeners get more from the music if they are not straining to catch every word that is sung. Most translations are inept, a handicap to real enjoyment. In the first act of Madame Butterfly it is obvious to any onlooker that Pinkerton is making love to Cho-Cho-San. Curving melody flows from the orchestra while he sings, "Just like a little squirrel are all her pretty movements." To many Tristan would seem foolish delivering a literal translation of his part in the exalted love duet. The music would be reaching its grandest climax while...
...clock in New York's Town Hall, center of musical interest in the metropolis. "The Peaceable Kingdom", by Randall Thompson '20, which had its world's premiere at Sanders Theatre on March 3, and was especially assigned to the University singers, stands out among the selections which will be sung by the combined choristers. The first half hour of concert will be broadcast over the Columbia Broadcasting System...
Newberry's "This is the Night," ably sung in the show by Lawrence L. Davis '38, is already being played over radio net-works and is soon to be published in New York. Louis Armstrong, dusky bombshell of rhythm, has promised that he will make a record of "Zulu Lulu" in the near future...