Word: sung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anniversary preacher: Manhattan's Rev. Charles Edward Jefferson, famed for lofty mind and simple heart. A great choir of 500 will sing the hymns of 25 years ago. "Blessed Be the Tie That Binds" will be sung for Founder Clifford Webster Barnes who, now 68 and ailing since last summer, is in Pasadena, Calif, with his 91-year-old mother, a granddaughter of Daniel Webster...
...Gotterdammerung" is being sung by the Metropolitan Opera Company as part of its regular Wagner cycle. Paneyko's reproducer gives such unusual qualities of sound and volume that the listener has the illusion of being in a concert hall. The broadcast will be open to the public...
...modern reader seldom realizes that most Elizabethan, Jacobein, and Restoration lyrics were written to be sung; and as a result, he misses much of their intrinsic charm and beauty. This volume of the songs of John Dryden, collected together for the first time, includes the original music by Purcell, Grabu, and Draghi, never before made available to the public. In it one can now study the poems as they were originally presented, as Restoration audiences heard them first...
...Slowly he smeared his face with yellow paint, donned a snakey-cued China-man's wig. For that last afternoon he had chosen to sing in Franco Leoni's L'Oracolo, a one-act opera, second rate to be sure, but one which only he had sung at the Metropolitan, one which exhibited his talent for acting and made no strenuous demands on his voice...
...Beecher's Church in Brooklyn. The first time he heard them Preacher Beecher, as ardent an abolitionist as his sister Harriet Beecher Stowe, sat down and addressed a letter to his parishioners: "Avail yourselves of a rare opportunity to hear a style of music rapidly passing away, music . . . sung as only they can sing it who know how to keep time to a master's whip...