Word: sung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always "policemen," and Negro cops, who are always "patrolmen." In the Memphis Commercial Appeal if a minister is white, he is "the Rev.," if Negro he is simply "Rev." The Denver Post is explicit on Roman Catholic ritual: "Mass is celebrated, said or read. High Mass is sung, never held. The Rosary is recited or said, never read." But the Miami News takes the easy way out: "Write it 'the mass (or rosary) will be at 7 p.m.' rather than having it sung, read, held, recited, given or said...
...They've done this place over neatly," I heard one of Cambridge's older generation remark behind me at the Radcliffe Choral Society concert last night. "Times do change." Paine Hall's interior decor has indeed changed with the times, but the character of the groups that have sung in it has swerved little from the standard of taste and precision established 50 years ago. Tone quality and balance vary from year to year, but the singing groups are always `neat" and last night the Choral Society demonstrated this quality again, while ranging from Pergolesi's Stabat Mater to Kodaly...
...other half of the program, conducted by Elliott Forbes. Three motets by Victoria, Beveridge, and Randall Thompson displayed control and lightness, the Thompson work being of peculiarly obvious but quite appealing construction. Two 17th century "ayres" by John Hilton and two 16th century chansons by Claude Le Jeune were sung delicately, but the chorus's diction was not always good. In a more lyrical vein, two songs of Brahms and one of Schumann were wonderfully rich and fluid, the latter ending softly with well-controlled dynamics...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Music inspired by Shakespeare, sung by Patrice Munsel, Joan Sutherland and Alfred Drake, plus readings by Sir John Gielgud. Color...
...proud that I have never refused to sing to any group of people because I might disagree with some of the ideas of some of the people listening to me. I've sung for rich and poor, for Americans of every possible political and religious opinion and persuasion, for every race, color and creed," he said...