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Word: sung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program will be of additional interest to all as selected numbers will be illustrated by a special chorus composed of members of the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society. Eleven operettas will be sung in part to illustrate the points of Dr. Davison's address in order to make the lecture more clear and informative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAVISON TALKS ON GILBERT AND SULLIVAN OPERETTAS | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...after villainous Lord Ashton (Baritone Giuseppe de Luca) had driven her to her wits' end with his connivings against her lover (Tenor Beniamino Gigli) she found her stride. The Mad Scene, given in the key of F instead of a tone lower as is usually the case, was superbly sung. Difficult chromatic runs and arpeggios done with the greatest ease, trills and staccati true to pitch (coloraturas are inclined to sing off-key), a high E flat clearly sung, not just peeped?these won her cheers and a dozen or more curtain calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Excitement at the Met | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

...Lily Pons said she would and the Zenatellos could not get back to Manhattan fast enough. They hurried to see General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza. He shrugged his shoulders. He hears of many "discoveries" and this one had had only three years' experience in unimportant opera houses, had never sung at all in Paris. "But," said Madame Gay, "if she fails I pay the passage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Excitement at the Met | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

...immediate future includes a concert at Milton on the evening of Friday. February 20. On Tuesday afternoon and evening. February 24, the Club will join with the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in the Bach Festival. Bach's "Mass in B. Minor" will be sung. The following Thursday the three musical groups will render the composer's "Magnificat" followed by the "Mass" on Sunday, March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB NAMES TENTATIVE LIST OF OEDIPUS REX SINGERS | 1/9/1931 | See Source »

...sent to an outpost where the men are noted for slaughtering their officers. At regular intervals, in solo and duet, princess and lieutenant emit the show's celebrated and familiar song-hit, "Lover, Come Back to Me,'' singing it probably better than it has ever been sung before. Grace Moore is not a polished actress, but she is an unusually handsome and healthy looking young woman. Lawrence Tibbett is adequately tempestuous. Best shot: Tibbett tactfully translating a gypsy song. Sunny (First National). The only excuses that could possibly be advanced for reproducing a musical comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 5, 1931 | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

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