Word: sung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...season turned out for a special performance of La Boheme in which the heroine was Grace Moore making her first Manhattan opera appearance since 1932. Since then, with One Night of Love and Love Me Forever, the blonde soprano had become a top-notch cinema success. She had sung in London's Covent Garden at the command of the Royal Family (TIME, June 24), returned to the U. S. to be greeted like a Jenny Lind. Airplanes circled her ship, flying streamers inscribed with "WELCOME, GRACE MOORE...
...third but highly helpful wheel in the Rogers-Astaire tandem, wrote music and lyrics of all seven tunes used in Follow the Fleet. The more serious numbers, Here Am I, But Where Are You, Get Thee Behind Me, Satan, have a nostalgic catch that is characteristically Berlinish. They are sung by Harriet Hilliard whose general proficiency got her a starring contract when RKO officials saw Follow the Fleet previewed...
...addition to fine old standbys which include the magnificence of a Bach cantata and the vigour of English sea chanties, there are to be sung two new compositions, one by Igor Markevitch, and the other by Randall Thompson '20. Markevitch is a young Russian now resident in Paris whose only vocal work, the "Cantate", is to be performed in part by the Glee Club. The other modernist, Randall Thompson, is a Harvard graduate and recent lecturer in these parts, whose latest composition, "The Peaceable Kingdom", in receiving its initial performance by the joint chorus on Tuesday evening...
...Italy some 20 years ago there was a small, shabby theatre where neighbors dropped in to see a bit of drama, a bit of clowning and got for good measure a dash of grand opera. The impresario was Ferruccio Giannini, a tenor who could boast that he had once sung with Patti. At home the Gianninis made music all the time. The mother Antoinetta played the violin. Daughters Euphemia and Dusolina sang. Vittorio played the piano. Son Francis had a cello when he was big enough to wield one. Dusolina Giannini was 9 when she made her debut...
...Photographer Soong, for cornering difficult General Sung Cheh-yuan with a camera, all credit.-ED. Interesting Day Sirs...