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Word: sung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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JUDY: I hardly think that is the way to refer to the music of the famous teutonic composer, Hans Werner Henze, especially when sung by the theremin-toned Rita Streich. Although not up to her performance in Die Zauberflote (Decca DL 9932, monaural, at the Coop), Miss Streich surely improves the score--which could stand as a musical composition by itself, even while it serves Resnais's most specific dramatic intentions...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: Muriel | 10/24/1964 | See Source »

AFRICAN CONCERT (Philips) is sung by the Troubadours of Belgium's King Bau-douin-45 Congolese drummers and singers between the ages of nine and 14, who earned the right to their title by delighting the King with a performance of their songs during his 1956 visit to the Congo. Their earlier recording of Luba folk songs and a Mass won them a large international audience. Somehow their leader, Franciscan Father Guido Haazen, makes them sing together with precision and yet seem to be blithely improvising. Theirs are songs for working, praying, playing and dancing. One, sung in Swahili...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 9, 1964 | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

...songs are timeless Porter but, even so, some of them are as datable as coins. I'm Throwing a Ball Tonight, for example, was first sung in 1940's Panama Hattie, by Ethel Merman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Cole Mine | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...Mimi, which she has sung at La Scala, Mirella Freni, 29, an Italian lyric soprano of talent and beauty, can hold her own with Tebaldi, De los Angeles and Moffo. Her voice is easy and focused, but her particular strength as the little seamstress is her touching youthfulness. Tenor Ni colai Gedda is equally melodious and moving as her lover. Thomas Schippers conducts the Rome Opera House Orches tra and Chorus impetuously but artfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 4, 1964 | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

...picked the stage settings, including two 40-ft.-high portraits of himself. He selected his own words, "Let us continue . . ." as the convention's motto. He chose Hello, Dolly! sung to the words "Hello, Lyndon!" as the convention's theme song. He dictated the schedule and rejiggered it whenever he felt like it. He directed all the performers, worked to sustain suspense over his choice of a running mate, added excitement with his own Atlantic City appearances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: L.B.J, All the Way | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

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