Word: sung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calypso is the biggest thing in the pop-music business since rock 'n' roll started rolling, but why is something of a mystery. Few people can "dance calypso" (there is no formal style) or sing it in the shower. In Trinidad, its place of origin, it was sung extemporaneously, first by plantation workers and later by semiprofessionals with such exotic names as the Growler, Attila the Hun and the Lord Executor. The lyrics might relate some back-fence gossip, reflect on the paternity of a neighbor or comment on political news. In Trinidad some of the semipros still...
Chamber music can be found in neighborhood churches or refurbished lofts; grand opera may be sung in reconditioned movie theaters with the orchestral pyrotechnics of Verdi or Bizet tamed to a single piano. Many programs are heard in some of the city's finest new recital halls, which bring music closer to home because they are in residential areas, e.g., the new auditorium of New York University's Law School in Washington Square, which serves as a musical center for lower Manhattan; the wood-lined, acoustically outstanding Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum on upper Fifth...
...opening night music was pounded out with proper gusto by Fred Johnson. An extra amount of praise goes to Liz Stearns, who performed on short notice and directed the show. The final best critique of Miss Informed was sung by her Gretchen, "I just want to have a little fun!" Drumbeats is not much more than fun, but that's enough...
...view-a selection of 86 Japanese and Chinese paintings, sculpture and ceramics from their collection in Tokyo and Washington, which Freer Gallery Expert Harold Stern enthusiastically calls "without doubt one of the finest private collections in the world." Included were pottery and sculpture from the Han, Tang, Sung and Ming dynasties, a Sesshu landscape, Ashikaga screens, and a primitive warrior sculpture judged by Cleveland Art Museum Curator Sherman Lee to be "one of the finest Chinese clay sculptures in America...
...Hauges, who had free Government housing and low living expenses, put in 70% of their salaries to build their collection. Says Gratia: "We were always broke." But today Victor Hauge is the proud possessor of the collection's gem, an ink-on-silk painting by Northern Sung Dynasty Painter Li Lung-mien, so rare that the Japanese government has declared it a national treasure. At their home in Falls Church, Va., Osborne and Gratia can trot out genuine Ming dishes for company. Says Gratia: "We don't regret a single thing we bought-only the things we didn...