Word: sung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their repertory includes most of the old favorites: "The Gondoliers," "Iolanthe," the "Trial by Jury," The Pirates of Penzance," "The Yeomen of the Guard," "The Mikado," "Princess Ida," "Cox and Box," "H. M. S. Pinafore," and "Patience." Portions of many of these operettas have been sung by glee club members since time immemorial, and it is to be expected that some usually enterprising devotee of Gilbert and Sullivan will be so swept away as to join in the choruses from the audience...
...shrewd showwoman like Mary Garden had more to offer. Halfway through the program she stopped to reminisce about Composer Claude Debussy. She was his first Melisande, although Playwright Maurice Maeterlinck fought to have the part sung by Soprano Georgette Leblanc. One night in Paris Debussy's young wife Lili wanted the composer to attend a rich woman's dinner party, asked Mary Garden to exert her influence. Debussy decided to go. A year later he left Lili for the hostess who was better able to provide for his exquisite tastes...
Last spring the H.A.A. announced that the concessions at Soldiers Field during the football season had been given over into the hands of professional caterers whose renown was sung throughout the Middle West as purveyors of the better brand of hot dogs...
...presented consists of the following numbers: "The Crimson and the Green," a medley of Harvard and Dartmouth songs; "Tiger Medley," as played at Princeton with interpolation of a male chorus singing The Orange and the Black"; "Far Above Cayuga's Waters," the Cornell alma mater, to be sung by the bandsmen, accompanied by a trombone choir; "Harvardiana," and "Soldiers Field," with vocal; "Wintergreen for President"; "On Brave Old Army Team," and "West Point Alma Mater," the latter sung by the chorus; "Soldier Medley," as played at the Army Game this fall; "Gridiron King," and "Our Director"; "Yale Medley," as played...
...Europe the role of the Marschallin is considered to be Lehmann's greatest. Last week was the first time she has sung it in the U. S. Critics could find no flaw. Few will forget her as she sat before her mirror, sadly realizing that youth, for her, was gone...